I'm thinking of writing a book on national health care. It will be 2,000 pages, and you'll have two hours to read it. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
If you have something to say, here's what you do: You write it down on a piece of paper, you go out… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
“Don't just read, insert yourself into the story and experience the journey as if you were written into it! – Lynn Veevers” — Lynn Veevers Copy Share Image
“She flipped through the pages of her apps, as if Apple made an app for "Escape from a deserted island.” — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
First of all you are a writer, a writer is what you are, so it doesn't actually stop the moment you leave… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I have this deep love for authors. I think that we don't do enough to encourage love of words and love of… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
The original idea of blog publishing was that writer and reader would be on the same level. That it would be a… — Nick Denton Copy Share Image
“I'm not the same reader when I finish a book as I was when I started, brains are tangles of pathways, and… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I know books that are really good and writers that are really good and they have become oppressed and ground down from… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
“Reading, which had been at the heart of my intellectual and emotional existence, was suddenly beyond my grasp. I was used to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
since piety has become the fashion at Court, dramatic authors imagine that their pieces would be more welcome if they added in… — Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans Copy Share Image
“STRASBOURG, October 14—Among the priceless volumes destroyed in the library here, was a full set of ABBOTT'S NAPOLEON histories. They were all… — Various Copy Share Image
“Fiction isn't bad. It is vital. Without commonly accepted stories about things like money, states or corporations, no complex human society can… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I was so fortunate to be raised in a household filled with books and - as you might imagine to be the… — Dorothy Bush Koch Copy Share Image
“The three secrets of getting published: 1. Never give up! 2. Never give up! 3. Never give up! It doesn't matter how… — Marshall S. Thomas Copy Share Image
As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone… — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“I’ve never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You’d think they were diamonds.” “Well, they are, aren’t they?” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Everyone should read at least 10 books in their lifetime - it helps your mind, develops your imagination, and can help you… — Megan Wilson Copy Share Image
“The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait." ( About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling , New… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons that I like fiction versus nonfiction is that I myself can kind of disappear from the… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
In real life, I'm not the center of attention; I'm in the back, and I listen. So when it comes to writing,… — Little Simz Copy Share Image
I began writing 'Amanda Wakes Up' in 2012 as an outlet for frustration over what I was seeing in TV 'news' at… — Alisyn Camerota Copy Share Image
My life has been pretty unconventional. The publishers saw a story in it, and yes, my life has been put in a… — Harshvardhan Rane Copy Share Image
But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
“I am the discoverer of Quantum Editing, the process whereby the amateur editor keeps being changed by the editing he does, requiring… — Matt Chatelain Copy Share Image
What is the best way to write? Each of us has to discover her own way by writing. Writing teaches writing. No… — Gail Sher Copy Share Image
I dont know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent Im… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
I've been a writer since I was a kid. I've been a writer since I was, you know, dictating stories into a… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I write what I like to write. Those who like to listen to it, listen to it. And the ones who don't,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Every morning, I go off to a small studio behind my house to write. I try to ignore all email and phone… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I was also a good writer, by the way. My, you know, my English teacher and writing teacher loved my writing. You… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
