Right now I'm singing along to books on tape. I typically pop in something like Stephen King's 'The Stand,' and I love… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I wrote stuff so deep. I saw a letter that I wrote when I was about 11, and I'm like, 'Calm down,… — Shira Haas Copy Share Image
I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out. — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer who looks for the fantastic and the sensational. I like the world we've got. If there is anything… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
The first draft is the child's draft, where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on… — Dermot Healy Copy Share Image
I eat broccoli. I think about the plot. I pace in circles for hours, counter-clockwise, listening to music. I try to think… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you.… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small town with a very small library. But the books in the library opened a large place… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
“Like the moon, the novel is a symbol and a necessary reality. Ideally it serves neither gods nor masters. Philosopher’s stone, it… — Rikki Ducornet Copy Share Image
Eve Byron has a permanent place on my must-buy list. Her characters are three-dimensional men and women who live on in readers'… — Barbara Bretton Copy Share Image
A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I spent the rest of the workday on routine paperwork, snarling at misplaced files and seething at the stupidity of everyone else's… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
For me, the goal of a reading is fundamentally to help the person get closure or insight, and so sharing negative information… — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
... I used words without precautions. I wanted to disappear into them, I fled into the bovaryism of the writer trying to… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
There are many things I think about that never get to the point of becoming serious. In other words, I try to… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Has anybody read the book Thirteen Reasons Why I am reading it right now and its pretty good so far if you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like to write in the mornings, so I try to protect 9 A.M. - 12 P.M. for me. I can drop… — Douglas Brunt Copy Share Image
I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“you're never alone when you are reading books. Reading awake your mind,enlighten your life and enrich your knowledge.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
“Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for… — William Dyer Copy Share Image
“A man who reads at all, reads just as he eats, sleeps, and takes exercise, because he likes it; and that is… — Arthur Christopher Benson Copy Share Image
The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
“Writers have influenced thoughts, principals, viewpoints and experiences throughout history. A talented writer’s pen is anointed with magic!” — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book. They are only sorry they did not… — Sam Horn Copy Share Image
“A book is kind of like a good Horcrux, if we can imagine that -- a piece of the writer's soul, preserved… — Cheryl B. Klein Copy Share Image
I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“An idea doesn’t have to be a plot notion, just a place to begin creating. Plots often generate themselves when one begins… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
This is the life I live, and this is the stuff I experience. And like any good writer, I should just write… — Sune Rose Wagner Copy Share Image
The first few months of my life of every year are in total retreat. I don't see anybody except my husband and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Writers are in many ways like demi-gods. With one stroke of a pen they can give life to a character, or strike… — Steven Lake Copy Share Image
One thing that I believe is that every time I write something, I am taking the time to celebrate. Even if I… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
