I write very tightly, and my big fear is boring people. I want them to read quickly, stopped in their tracks. I… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I used a video camera, and shot on film cameras at school and stuff, but I had a lot more training as… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
Writing is a sad process, sitting on your ass for many, many hours, alone in a room, smelling like coffee, sadness and… — Amy Sherman-Palladino Copy Share Image
“Perdu reflected that it was a common misconception that booksellers looked after books. They look after people. —” — Nina George Copy Share Image
“She said I owned the clothes of a radiologist and the shoes of an OBGYN; which is like the medical doctor equivalent… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive. — George Hamilton Copy Share Image
It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I thought that deserved a book and feel like the door needs to be open so people can say, "Ok, here we… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
The first book I ever bought for myself was 'One Fish Two Fish' by Dr. Seuss. My favourite page shows two children… — Mini Grey Copy Share Image
No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I wouldn't buy a book simply because I like the cover. I would pick it up. The jacket can call your attention… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
“Writing is a profession that requires being alone. Just alone. You talk, laugh, get pissed off, get scared, be happy, think, imagine,… — Alexina Benavidez Copy Share Image
It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I keep a note pad because, sometimes, my thoughts get jammed up, and this is the only way that I can just,… — Moneybagg Yo Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel I'm a sort of cult writer, rather than a mainstream writer, in that those who like my stuff like… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
I have written about cultural dislocation, and I understand the corrosive effect of diminished expectations. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
“I am not as valuable as the books, I AM the books! They are a part of me I cannot delete or… — Whitney L. Grady Copy Share Image
Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book… — Ted Bell Copy Share Image
“Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit.” — Jeanette Winter Copy Share Image
Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey. — John Updike Copy Share Image
You can't compartmentalise everything but the more you do that the easier it is. Keeping a notebook is a good way of… — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
The album cover of 'Death of a Bachelor' is me on my roof of my backyard, so that's my place where I… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
When we talk about books, we rarely talk about the economic side of writing, especially of writing literary works, and that, at… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have only one bit of advice to the beginning writer: Be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“Members of the Order take vows of literacy, obstinancy and bibliomancy. Bibliomancy? It's defined for us a little further down: "Divination by… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty. — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
“Like a good American, I wanted to sue somebody. But like a good librarian, I just sat at my desk and waited.” — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
