The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sometimes one must choose between turning the pages and move on and closing the book for a better future — Mercy Pheona Copy Share Image
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
Tobias Buckell combines old world with new in his novel CRYSTAL RAIN. While the rich cultures, drawn in part from Caribbean history… — Karin Lowachee Copy Share Image
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Each and every one of us has moments like these, times when a book becomes more than a book. It is a… — Emily Asher-Perrin Copy Share Image
“Humans need each other for equilibrium and support. But writers must pull aside to take a quiet walk alone, not just for… — Patricia Hickman Copy Share Image
“The mall looked deserted, and there was only one bulb on the ground floor to guide him to the winding staircase that… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
Autobiography is the most fascinating thing you can do because you get to touch the human condition. And in the end, what… — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
“Book reviewer: Very often a writer who has never been published taking out their frustrations on a writer who has.” — Raul Ramos y Sanchez Copy Share Image
“When you talk to an author or an artist, you’re only ever getting half the story. We are crafting narratives for you.… — Phoebe North Copy Share Image
I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, until they have seen and lived at least… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
It is a lot harder to write a good book or a good column in a persuasive way without making fun of… — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of… — Monica Dickens Copy Share Image
The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
When I was 14 years old, I was crazy about Dr. Seuss. I loved the words he made up, and I just… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife… — Ismail Merchant Copy Share Image
“If I had to choose between a wall of paintings and a wall of books, I would certainly choose books. When you… — Timothy Mauson Copy Share Image
Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I became a writer because I am the youngest of six children. I listen; I observe. I'm camouflaged as a moth. Mothers… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
“I never said you were supposed to be a jailer, i only said a normal person would have questioned why someone would… — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I love writing, and I am never as happy as when I have a week, a month - three months - with… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
I wanted to find something I could do at home. I sat down with a friend and made a list of all… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
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