It's one thing looking up your own book in a library, but imagine being able to look up your own word in… — Alex Horne Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
In college, I had a lot of friends who were writers and wanted to be writers and I felt intimidated by it.… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
I like to write when things are calm - and when I'm not worried about my well-being, the well-being of those I… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“I think that what influences us in literature comes less from what we love and more from what we happen to pick… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I don't worry about what everyone wants to see. I make movies that please a writer, director and myself. I always think… — Saul Zaentz Copy Share Image
“Why d’you read then?” “Partly for pleasure, because it’s a habit and I’m just as uncomfortable if I don’t read as if… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It's amazing to me: when people start their career, you write about maybe a couple of topics, and you find that as… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
Maybe I have a one-track mind, but the best writers and thinkers are focusing on nonfiction these days; this is the genre… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
When asked how she knows when her writing is where she wants it to be: "I know when it's the best I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Evan Handler's unsparingly honest stories about life, love, and his own shortcomings are hilarious to read and oh, so easy (and fun!)… — Liz Tuccillo Copy Share Image
“...learning is not the consequence of teaching or writing, but rather of thinking...so a playful, provocative, unclear but stimulating book could actually… — Brian McLaren Copy Share Image
“Even if all knowledge could be found in books, where it is mixed in with so many useless things and confusingly heaped… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“Rather than the grey and dreary institutions of public perception, these should be places of innovation and experiment, where readers can take… — Ann Cleeves Copy Share Image
To call someone like me a writer-activist suggests that it's not the job of a writer to write about the society in… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
You're not going to be a writer someday. You're a writer today. Discipline yourself to write and take time to enjoy writing.… — Jack Heffron Copy Share Image
Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Encourage your children to read. Reading can unlock the keys to a whole world of information. Parents are teachers, both by example… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“A few days earlier, Adriana and I had been browsing books at the local library. I happened to turn around and look… — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image
The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I think ‘slow writing’ is the answer when the feeling of burn out threatens, something akin to the ‘slow food’ movement. Anxiety… — Rosaleen Love Copy Share Image
I have like 250 letters that I have to whittle it down to 150. Only then do you have the whole overview… — Don Novello Copy Share Image
I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Cracking the Ice scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“…I had a good title already. My book was originally called Loser: A Brief History of Notable Failures. But American publishers don’t… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms and scaring… — Noah Lukeman Copy Share Image
I was always writing for myself. I wrote what I needed to write and hear - that's what makes it powerful. — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can… — Taylor Dane Copy Share Image
“[Books are] vital to learning. Half the population don't go to football matches but that doesn't make football any less important.” — John Sutherland Copy Share Image
After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but… — Leah Price Copy Share Image
I painted from the time I was five years old. I was going to be a painter, an actor, a director, and… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
“I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I'm just delighted they're reading them at all!” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
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