I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“You may receive a pie, eat it and forget. You may receive champagne, drink it and forget. But when you receive a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If you don't have a burning passion for writing, how can you expect anyone else to be moved by what you write? — JoAnn Ross Copy Share Image
I think the best writing is full of honesty and conviction. A lot of people are afraid to reveal much of themselves. — Sam Fender Copy Share Image
It stinks of trains and that chili with the chocolate in it. Ooooh, books!" he exclaimed suddenly, making a beeline for the… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
I don't write because of some rare talent. I write because I have a little voice inside of me that says really… — Todd Newton Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to write a book; it wasn't even in my vision. I was posting stuff online just because it made… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
So much of my own life inspires what I write. Whether it's work, family, friends, motherhood, I am a writer who tends… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
“There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember I had a copy of 'David Copperfield' that I lugged around at primary school. I started reading it when I… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
“My brother was one of the bigger influences in my life, in as much as he told me I didn't have to… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
In re-reading 'Presumed Innocent,' the one thing that struck me - and I re-read the book four different times in writing 'Innocent,'… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“ Una casa senza libreria è una casa senza dignità, — ha qualcosa della locanda, — è come una città senza librai,… — Edmondo De Amicis Copy Share Image
The best thing anyone can do is be himself. Everyone was made different by God, and that's the way it should be.… — Ernie Harwell Copy Share Image
Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient. — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other… — Will Self Copy Share Image
A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“For some, perhaps for many, books are spare time. For me, the rest of life is spare time: I wake and sleep… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I'm not happy that death is approaching because I like being alive but I'm glad I've escaped the two-post-a-day economy of contemporary… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
“This is what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories.” — John Green Copy Share Image
No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you can't write well then your ambition to become famous in this way will be frustrated. Either that or you have… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting. — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get… — Anne Beatts Copy Share Image
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm horrified most of the time. I wish it was more complicated, but at the same time, each time I try to… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
“A piece of writing is a trap,” he said cheerily, “and the best kind. A book, you see, is the only kind… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it… — Amy Lee Copy Share Image
Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it,… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don't… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I read a lot; I tried to understand the mechanisms that made the books I liked successful, and I went that route.… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
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