I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories. — Zhang Yimou Copy Share Image
Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My wife and I always comment that our lives are relatively mundane. She's a writer as well, I'm a writer, we spend… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly. — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up… — Emily Susan Rapp Copy Share Image
I don't know if you've ever tried writing a Doctor Who story, but it's a lot more difficult than it initially appears,… — Sarah Sutton Copy Share Image
We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“ Writing on Paper A benefit of writing in a paper journal is that the only limitation is the size of the… — Heather Moehn Copy Share Image
I wrote the first draft of the New People quickly but it had been percolating a lot longer. It's a hard question… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
“6 criteria to upgrade literary production; Correct language, the power of the idea, the fluency in expressing, the connection between ideas and… — Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi Copy Share Image
“LOVE JUNKIE travels tenderly and boldly into the despair, isolation, and tenacity of sex and love addiction. Rachel Resnick's gift for language… — Kelly McDaniel Copy Share Image
That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink.… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Reading literature remains a civilising activity, no matter that it's literature in which people do and say abominable things and the author… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“Because reading books and having them bound represent two enormously different stages of development. First, people gradually get used to reading, over… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.” — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
To me, something that's beautiful in terms of a book is something that lives inside the reader both as a discrete and… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“Books are the best type of influence of the past...Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
I have been writing since 11th grade, and have a few features that have almost gotten off the ground. I really want… — Devon Bostick Copy Share Image
There's no reason that a writer, if they have some discipline and curiosities and passion, can't be vital for a long, long… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“It is better to write in order to find what you are than to write to find what price others put on… — Daniel Kemp Copy Share Image
Good books that often I would hate to finish because they took me into their lives and let me out of mine,… — Ron McLarty Copy Share Image
“Naturally you're out of book space. Everyone is always out of book space. If you're not out of book space, you're probably… — Kinsfire Copy Share Image
A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Today, it's possible to read both erotica and books written for children without fear of social castigation.” — Amelia Gray Copy Share Image
“You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I read each evening, at night and whenever possible during the day when I am traveling. I have always read. — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
As convenient as it is for information to come to us, libraries do have a valuable side effect: they force all of… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Nobody can take what I love away from me. I would like to believe that love is the only energy I've ever… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
Since I was the stupidest kid in my class, it never occurred to me to try and be perfect, so I've always… — Stephen J. Cannell Copy Share Image
Like Scout and her father in To Kill a Mockingbird, my father would pull me onto his lap each night in our… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
“It is wonderful how much news there is when people write every other day; if they wait for a month, there is… — Anna Buchan Copy Share Image
I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for… — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
I actually chose to do 'X-Men' because I'm working with Simon Kinberg, who's also a first-time filmmaker who I met on 'The… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
There are some dried flowers found in between the pages of your books.. you've done a lot of saving, haven't you? — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
