All my stories are mainly slice-of-life and rooted to real issues and situations that I have experienced myself. — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
There’s no need to get rid of literally hundreds of thousands of books that are fine simply because you have a problem… — Mark Earley Copy Share Image
Write what you love. Love will hold you through the hard times and hold the world during the good times. — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
“They were oddities, marginal and not exactly respectable. For her part, Chaps was too well read to be considered entirely proper. Books… — Sheridan Hay Copy Share Image
Writers can write to affirm and to celebrate, or they can write to debunk and destroy; the choice is ours. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
The reason I became a writer is because I like sitting in dark rooms by myself, not standing on stage and talking… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
I feel like once I say out loud, to the public, what I'm working on, it's never going to be an actual… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally… — Adam Green Copy Share Image
It is scary to write - period - for me, but once you get past the idea that it's scary to write,… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image
Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
My son and I discovered Terry Pratchett's books together, when he was about eleven years old. He'd be reading on his own… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
I like Beryl Bainbridge a great deal, and she is a writer who absolutely demands to be read a second, third, and… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
“Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and unfairness wherever… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
The literary interview won't tell you what a writer is like. Far more compellingly to some, it will tell you what a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I read everything. I've always got a book on the go and I'm really nerdy about it, I get through books and… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
When I first started out, I was trying to write stories about nurses and lawyers and a lot of people I didn't… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.' — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I still enjoy the tactile sensation of holding a book. But when I need to read fast for work, I use the… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“There was a Wonderful Friend whom i meet when ever in solitude.. He gives me solace & Fun. People call them Books.” — Lowplex Copy Share Image
The secret of literature, which conventional people don't guess, is that writers are forever looking for the surprising revelation - not for… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have writing habits. Writing is impossible and every time I have to do it I kind of… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
It's common procedure in the industry for people with little or no professional writing experience to get a book deal because of… — Carole Radziwill Copy Share Image
The bookshelf, like the book, has become an integral part of civilization as we know it, its presence in a home practically… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
I've just been writing stuff down as it comes to me. I haven't thought, 'Let me write some major opus here.' — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning. — Phyllis A. Whitney Copy Share Image
“Reading was my way of not thinking about maths. More than that (or do I mean less?), it was my way of… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
First and foremost, if you want to be a good writer, you need to be a good eater. You need to be… — Melissa Leong Copy Share Image
If I'm doing my job right, then I'm not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I'm just jotting… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The thing I worry about is, what happens when your talent flees? Because you see that with writers sometimes: they start writing… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“There is a time to stop reading, there is a time to STOP trying to WRITE, there is a time to kick… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Writing the opening lines of a story is a bit like starting to ski at the steepest part of a hill. You… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
“I’m writing my memoirs,” Obi announced. “And I’m going to update my online status from « It’s complicated » to « I’m… — Jack Campbell Copy Share Image
