You have to be able to play: this is spontaneous interaction, and it flexes all the creative muscles you need as a… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
“Digital books are in some ways hastening the lazy, solipsistic narcissism of our culture. We use our gadgets as proxies for other… — Jason Merkoski Copy Share Image
I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not… — Erskine Caldwell Copy Share Image
The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is,… — Clifford Allbutt Copy Share Image
“You say you have nothing to write about? How do you find things to talk about? You can write about those things… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I tend to write things and review it afterwards and realise what comes out. I very rarely ever write something and have… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
I want children to be glued to interactive books that encourage singing and dancing. I feel when kids work together it brings… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
“This was the writer's true doppelgänger, I thought; not some invisible imp of the perverse who watched you from the shadows, periodically… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Please don't entertain for a moment the utterly mistaken idea that there is no drudgery in writing. There is a great deal… — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
“Immie put on her sunglasses. “Forrest’s writing a novel.” “What kind of novel?” asked Jule. “A little Samuel Beckett meets Hunter S.… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I often tell people to stop being afraid of writing bad poetry, or bad anything. I think that a lot of times,… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Reading for experience is the only reading that justifies excitement. Reading for facts is necessary bu the less said about it in… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
“I didn't doubt for a moment that she had read them all, or that they were the right books to own. Further,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“This book is for a black light, a bottom bunk and a hug, For a doorway, a pair of kicked-off shoes and… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
How I learned to read was by reading the captions on TV, and I grew up from a really young age watching… — Cameron Monaghan Copy Share Image
Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
“Writing is a form of intense thinking that takes a person on a journey into previously uncharted territory of the writer’s mind.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
Don't come to New York until you've finished a book. It's too expensive. You'll never write anything. You'll spend all your time… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
Of all literature I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was Philosophy and Opinions of… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
Why do I love writing? I can be who I want, do what I want, hurt who I want, and make the… — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
If I were running a campaign, I'd urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
When I'm out and about, I'll text or email myself from my phone. A smart phone is a great tool for a… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became… — Daniel Goldstein Copy Share Image
Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire. — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Books for children get into schools. Committed teachers use books like mine alongside films, non-fiction and fiction to help children investigate and… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I write sentence to sentence. That's the kind of writer I am. I don't have a plot when I begin. I have… — Lorraine Adams Copy Share Image
Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
You could figure out at least 80 percent of the context and meaning of a text if people used punctuation, and we… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
“The thing is not to write what no one else could have written, but to write what only you could have written.” — Nam Le Copy Share Image
I always try to mix it up with each book - changing tone, changing style keeps the work very vital for me. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
