In TV, writers generally are the show runners, and they have enormous control over everything. In feature films, very often the writer… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
“I promise you a case of writing paralysis if you think about too many of these tools when you sit down to… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare… — David Hume Copy Share Image
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
“Stop beating yourself up over all the days you didn’t work on your story. Focus on what you can do today. Sit… — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
You can't build a vocabulary without reading. You can't meet friends if you ... stay at home by yourself all the time.… — Rudolf Flesch Copy Share Image
I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“Dad used to read aloud to us from Dickens and Kipling. My tastes were omnivorous. I read anything I could lay my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I'm not very good in the mornings and often stay up late writing, so I get up at about 10am if I'm… — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
In researching literary agents I did what the books tell you to do: I looked at the acknowledgments page of a book… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
“I soon discovered that one doesn't simply read Crime and Punishment or A Tree Grows in Brooklyn . One reads a certain… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I think The Nightingale is my best, most mature, most moving novel, but maybe that's just because I love these characters. I… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“I never have any clue what my next book is going to be about, when the time comes, the book starts pouring… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Once you write a book, you hand it over to the readers, and it's their book then. They're so involved. They ask… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
“Writers are a strange breed. After all, we hear voices in our heads all the time, and sometimes, we even talk to… — Stevie J. Cole Copy Share Image
Some people are writers and don't ever want to be on camera, some people act and not write - I like writing… — Adam Conover Copy Share Image
I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
“We want splendid books ... books that prove to us that love is at work in the world next to evil, right… — Laurence Cossé Copy Share Image
When you have a book out, it's like a period of protracted or concentrated megalomania, and it's really not normal or good… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
“He had loved the library, and had felt, as a boy, as though it had a kind of sentience, and perhaps loved… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I've learned you can't write on a computer on a bus. It jiggles too much, especially an Apple. The keyboard jiggles around… — Stephen Stills Copy Share Image
“And it's time you learnd there's a big difference between your writing and your life. To do it right, your witing takes… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
I was quite a weird kid because I didn't like getting presents. I don't know why. I just went for books all… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
“Hicks was examining the paperbacks Maura had culled from the shelves: Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Joe Hill.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's normally in the morning, just playing around. And I'm not saying everything I make is great, but that's what I do.… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
“Do you know the best thing about broken hearts?' the librarian asked. I shook my head. 'They can only really break once.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical? — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or… — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four… — Gail Tsukiyama Copy Share Image
True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
