My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book… — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am a writer!! — Anamika Mishra Copy Share Image
No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do your best… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“Mr. O'Donnell was at the library counter, performing the sort of grim rituals librarians perform with index cards and stumpy pencils and… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
A Heart So White is simply one of the best novels I know. I'm also thrilled by Javier Marías sentences, by how… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
“I asked once, and the library assistant told me there were more than a hundred thousand books there, and more than sixty… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“What I've learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I took "Forever" [by Judy Blume] to the bathroom to read [when I was eight] and then I heard my mom coming… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I'd always rather stand or fall on my own mistakes. There's nothing worse than looking back, in a published book, at a… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The first book I bought was 'Anne of Green Gables,' an edition that is beautiful and complete - one I hope to… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
It is said that an Author won't become a great writer until they've suffered. I guess I'm in the throws of a… — Christel Tait Copy Share Image
In many ways, writing is the act of saying 'I,' of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, 'Listen to me, see… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my… — Billie Piper Copy Share Image
It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens is an enthralling concoction of history and magic, an absorbing, richly detailed, and heart-wrenching reimagining of a timeless… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
Ideologically, I have a lot of problems with that, especially when people toss around that form of story as realism. What's called… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they… — John Green Copy Share Image
“To dream of afar, to chase a star, to believe in Captain Hook. To dance with bears and have no cares, this… — H.L. Stephens Copy Share Image
Nobody had books at home. My dad was a very educated person, so he would have books at home. All Spanish books.… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Being a writer is an amazing job, but we’re all writers, most of us just forget to put our stories down on… — Colette Freedman Copy Share Image
What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
If you have nobody to talk, sit aside with paper and pen, you can see your fingers will write the worlds most… — Bhargavi Copy Share Image
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Thanks to the Jolabokaflod, books still matter in Iceland; they get read and talked about. Excitement fills the air. Every reading is… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
“I think the hardest thing about writing is writing." [Interview clip in the In Memoriam section of the 85th Academy Awards ceremony,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I suppose in the long run, it's the good work that outlasts the shoddy work, but there's enough room for all kinds… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find… — Alice James Copy Share Image
“Books,' I say sleepily. 'They don't change either. If you read a book and look at it again later on, it's still… — Truus Matti Copy Share Image
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