Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation. — Charice Pempengco Copy Share Image
“Write the book the way it should be written, then give it to somebody to put in the commas and shit.” — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“Writing is not just a process of creation. It is also a process of self-discovery” — Cristina Istrati Copy Share Image
“Some good shit happens fast (a bestselling book), and some good shit happens slow (love).” — Caroline Kepnes Copy Share Image
A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Is it hot in the rolling mill? Are the hours long? Is $15 a day not enough? Then escape is easy. Simply… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“What makes a writer successful is not money or fame (though both are nice) ... it's that in being true to her… — Miyoko Hikiji Copy Share Image
Brilliant, hard-earned and honest. The erasures and reappearances of figure and ground-that hard drama-have rarely been so movingly undertaken. A heartbreakingly beautiful… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
“I suspect that the real attraction was a large library of fine books, which was left to dust and spiders since Uncle… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward. — John Updike Copy Share Image
We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
What took you so long?” Will asked when Evie came panting into the room. He and Jericho had assembled a stack of… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I don't think writers should be convenient examples. I don't think we should make people feel settled. I don't try to be… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I think every writer's had the experience of having a really good idea, waiting to write it, and then once you write… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to… — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
You may well ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
As a director you have to be at 30,000 ft objectively looking at everything, wondering if you're making the right objective, emotional,… — Alex Kurtzman Copy Share Image
