When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm,… — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
“You have to write. You have to sit down and do it every day. Find your method, your motivation, your tenacity to… — Catherine Cruzan Copy Share Image
Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and… — Lily King Copy Share Image
“I devoured the books because they were the rays of light peeking out from the doorframe, and perhaps past that door there… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
You can't really give away anything in your book ... should be exciting, it's my life, and I'm a cool and exciting guy. — Usain Bolt Copy Share Image
The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large… — Beryl Bainbridge Copy Share Image
A School Library is Like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the… — Tom Angleberger Copy Share Image
“Rejection is a writer's best friend. If you are not failing regularly, you are living so far below your potential that you're… — Gregg Levoy Copy Share Image
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book...from the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“In 1891 the Brazilian Minister of Finance decreed the abolition of history; he ordered the destruction of every document which dealt in… — Manu Herbstein Copy Share Image
Don't just tell me a mystery; give me a world. Suzanne Myers delivers a hurricane-ravaged island shimmering with atmosphere and dense with… — Judy Blundell Copy Share Image
“His failure hurt too badly for that. It was a bad equation. Best erase it and try a new one. If adults… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It is often much harder to get rid of books than to acquire them. They stick to us in that pact of… — Carlos María Domínguez Copy Share Image
Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
A writer has to write something that they're - sit down with or are interested in every day of their life. — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the… — Egerton Brydges Copy Share Image
“I stood in the library admiring the huge book collection. There was something inherently calming about being surrounded by books, even their… — Saffron Mello Castro Copy Share Image
My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Note that the #1 Top Reviewer at Amazon (4550 book reviews) is Harriet Klausner, formerly an acquisitions librarian in Pennsylvania. This just… — Peter Morville Copy Share Image
I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious,… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
I remember as a child I just would copy everyone else's handwriting, and now I have sort of a version of my… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
Keeping a habit, in the smallest way, protects and strengthens it. I write every day, even if it's just a sentence, to… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
In 2008, when I wrote Book 1 and Book 2, the head of the publishing house suggested twelve books - one each… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Amazon isn’t happening to the book business,” he likes to say to authors and journalists. “The future is happening to the book… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
The writing of 'The Ladykillers' was fun. But once it goes out of your hands it's not fun, 'especially for someone who… — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
Well — when I write my book, and tell the tale Of my adventures — all these little stars That shake out… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
“Stephen King: If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered” — Afiena Kamminga Copy Share Image
“There are certain books in the history of the world that should never have been written. This book makes all those look… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I… — Joshua Slocum Copy Share Image
“Imogen was a bright girl naturally, but she had read so many novels that her brain was completely turned.” — Susan Coolidge Copy Share Image
They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly. — John Irving Copy Share Image
