I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
There are scenes from books I'm happy with. I tend to think my books are all broken. But then my favourite reads… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Jerel Law has crafted a fantastic story that will leave every reader wanting more. Stop looking for the next great read in… — Robert Liparulo Copy Share Image
I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc. — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Looking back at my younger self, that I'm not so different than I am now. I was always a seeker. I wanted… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Growing up, books were my best friends, just because I didn't really have a lot of peers as deaf kids. So I… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Whether it means producing a piece of art, writing a short story, or simply bringing beauty into our home or into the… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
“The approach to digital culture I abhor would indeed turn all the world's books into one book, just as Kevin (Kelly) suggested.… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Learn as much as you can. Take every opportunity to learn about writing, whether it’s through classes, workshops, whatever is available to… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“Keeping this journal causes tension as much as it calms it. The writing busies my hands and occupies my mind, but there’s… — Wayne Gladstone Copy Share Image
The type of stories I write are about young people grappling with the biggest problems in their lives, often problems that are… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
“If you wish to be a writer– then write, and don’t allow anyone to tell you that you’re on the ‘wrong’ path.… — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say? — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are major writers who have written books [based on my research]. If one looks carefully at the copyright page, you'll see… — Lawrence Schiller Copy Share Image
“Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art." (Last words, according to Dickens's… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill… — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I like to pretend that each book is my first one and last one, because it takes a tremendous amount of energy… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would… — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
If somebody writes something and it's true, you're not gonna be able to prevail and get damages, hear it. — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While I love walking past those beautifully lit bookstores in my neighborhood, what I mostly buy there are blank notebooks and last-minute… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
As authentic as it is riveting and ultimately unforgettable. Your past will find you-and it can change your life. I think it's… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
I started writing things because I don't have anyone to share with or it's hard for me to speak, But the best… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Coming-of-age stories are always appealing, especially as a young man who's still trying to figure out this complicated world. — Finn Cole Copy Share Image
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these… — Josephine Humphreys Copy Share Image
I work very closely with my co-writer, Efthimis Filippou. Ideas either start from him or me, and then the other one develops… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
“I wasn't writing home. I wasn't writing a death letter, either. I was writing a death journal, a piece of fiction meant… — Clint Van Winkle Copy Share Image
For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name… — John Selden Copy Share Image
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