Young people will tell you, if you're not prepared to write the most violent, the most misogynistic, the most horrible kinds of… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
(As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real… Once I got to my… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
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I want to direct in Denmark. I married a writer; my best friend's a writer, so I always wanted to be a… — Pilou Asbaek Copy Share Image
Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books. — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I was always someone who wanted to write. I was a real shy, bookworm-ish kid, and I think my earliest stuff was… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Do you want me to come to the hospital? she offered." Bryant's blue eyes widened. "Good Lord, no, why would you want… — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject ...… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I'm not sure which I dislike more: 'Ulysses' or the James Joyce estate. Admittedly, a few people have got some pleasure from… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
Picture books have terrible PR amongst the children of this country. Ask any librarian: after a certain age, children just aren't interested… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
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I love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the… — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on,… — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
“Buy yourself some books, Lottie. They help with everything. Books can make you live a thousand lifetimes, a thousand different lives. Books… — Katrina Leno Copy Share Image
But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read… — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
Writing is what we do. What else could I want in a life partner than someone who knows and shares what I… — Clark Blaise Copy Share Image
There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway. — George Packer Copy Share Image
THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
'Fault' became the book everybody and their mother had to read, and 'Paper Towns' is one that's beloved, but it's a bit… — Wyck Godfrey Copy Share Image
The Jaguar's Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
“writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty... It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful and utterly, utterly personal… — Russell T. Davies Copy Share Image
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
[T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
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The leader who loves books that tell him he is great and right may be worse than the leader who does not… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
As a writer, when you fall in love with a place, you want to spend more time in it, either physically or… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I personally love books that make me think, so I naturally gravitate toward writing a book like that, one that's going to… — Sharon Cameron Copy Share Image
“A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then… — Charles Nodier Copy Share Image
I want to encourage all parents to read to their children because it helps them to become better educated, better informed. — Jesse White Copy Share Image
I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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“A writer should be able to open a window or two and prompt others to see the world and themselves in a… — Barista Uno Copy Share Image
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