“On the table beside me is a book entitled Love’s Desperate Desire. Based on the cover, I would have called it My… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
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I am constantly trying to figure things out, and writing and decompressing is a way for me to analyze and try and… — Erin Willett Copy Share Image
I want to do something important in my life, and I think that adding beauty to the world with books... really is… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
“I'd get confused and write down things just to write them down and I came to this realization that I didn't do… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
When you write, you're supposed to go stand somewhere else for a while, see things from a perspective that's not in line… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“He wondered if burned books made a special kind of smoke that clung to the world forever, in the same way that… — Suzanne Selfors Copy Share Image
“Well, you know, I've been in so many writing workshops, writing classes, and to the right of me and to the left… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write.… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“Heartbreaking and brave, Rachel Resnick masterfully pulls the past to the present, exploring how the seeds of addiction planted during an unhappy… — Lee Montgomery Copy Share Image
Writers begin changing the instant they append 'The End' to a novel. Readers begin changing the moment they encounter that same phrase.… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Revision is not the end of the creative process, but a new beginning. It's a chance not just to clean up and… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Unfair," I said as Captain Goode opened a door to reveal a beautiful library. The room seemed to stretch on forever. Bookshelves… — Tarun Shanker Copy Share Image
“Books took, in her young life, the place of companions and childish games. She read a great deal without guidance or discrimination,… — Lyubov Dostoyevskaya Copy Share Image
Knut Hamsun's writing is magical. His sentences are glowing; he could write about anything and make it alive. Of contemporary writers, Thure… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
I don't have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I'm drafting a book, I try and do a… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
“Reading is too intimate,' Spofforth said. 'It will put you too close to the feelings and ideas of others. It will disturb… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
Some stories or passages are more difficult and demand more fussing with than others, but, in general, I'm a two-draft writer rather… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I like when people are very passionate about what they want to write about. Even if it's silly, you can be very… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
“The beauty of writing is imagining new endings to a time of darkness, like burning off a morning fog with the heat… — J.J. Brown Copy Share Image
My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games,… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“But I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write,… — Sean Connery Copy Share Image
I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to… — Catherine Mayer Copy Share Image
I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I'm a person who does not like to journal; I don't like to sit down and write... I don't even like sending… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too. — Andrej Pejic Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
“Writing, is not a race. Is to distill the soul letter by letter in a slow and delicate process that will take… — J.E. Negrete Copy Share Image
So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“As an author, I want to write what I’m inspired to write. Not what my readers want me to write. I feel… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
Every child is different. I think it's important that we don't have maybe just one or two books that we're recommending to… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to… — Don Murray Copy Share Image
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