Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money. Writers? Writers starved. Writers suicided. Writers went mad. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
See, I am not a writer. 'Nach Baliye' has its own creative team and a brilliant one at that. But I will… — Upasana Singh Copy Share Image
Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of… — Tracy McMillan Copy Share Image
“I need to add pictures for two of my books. I enjoygGoodreads but don't understand it all. Have many friends on here… — Betty Inabnitt Copy Share Image
The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I want all my books to provoke some kind of response in the reader, to make them think something or feel something… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
“There comes a time when you have to lay the book down, stop thinking, talking and planning, and start doing.” — Karl Vaters Copy Share Image
I think if I was interested in writing on my own, I would be a novelist - then you could write about… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I want to keep growing as a writer. I find myself doing unexpected projects and sort of challenging my idea of where… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“..reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“From the judge who lifted the Philadelphia ban on Never Love a Stranger, on Harold’s books: “I would rather my daughter learn… — Harold Robbins Copy Share Image
I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
[Literature is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well.… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming. — David Guterson Copy Share Image
If you are stymied as a writer, if it's just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don't feel that… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend… — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“Makikilala rin tayo sa kinds of books and other reading materials that we read. Our reading is the outward expression of our… — Ronald Molmisa Copy Share Image
“Why does everyone want to be a writer? It is because every person wants to feel that they have something of value… — Margie B. Klein Copy Share Image
Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum. — Joe Orton Copy Share Image
“A company author bombs from the sky like the Air Force. A self-published author wins the battle by foot.” — Judah Lee Davis Copy Share Image
I do a lot of writing in my capacity as the creative director for a marketing agency. These days, though, I'm trying… — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image
“Every time I hear writers talk about ‘the muse,’ I just want to bitch-slap them. It’s a job. Do your job.” — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Sylvia Day delivers readers to a fantasy world as unique as it is erotic! Ms. Day is an up-and-coming talent in the… — Toni Blake Copy Share Image
“If every kid who said he was going to the library, when he was really off doing something else, actually went to… — Ron Koertge Copy Share Image
“I don't think there is any point in continuing writing. Since I have neither killed nor been killed, there's nothing further to… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
Nobody told all the new e-mail writers that the essence of writing is rewriting. Just because they are writing with ease and… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I feel like today we always glorify the young, just-plucked-from-college writer. But it's much harder to start writing later, in middle age,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Real reading is reincarnation. There is no other way to put it. It is being born again into a higher form of… — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I've gone to draw inspiration and write many of my… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
“What do you do when you cannot see any light? Where do you go when you cannot see any path? So I… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Literacy is so much entwined in our lives that we often fail to realize that the act of reading is a miracle… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image