If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“You don't write poems sitting at a typewriter; you write them swimming or climbing a mountain or walking.” — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“A preface to the first edition of “Jane Eyre” being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I really don't think we should dismiss a book because we feel messed about intellectually. Or emotionally. That's the writer's job! — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I am just diving into life again. I just have nothing new to offer right now as an idea for a book.… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
“Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy." [ Harry… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I suppose if I didn't write for a living and it couldn't be published, I would have wanted to write anyway. I… — Decca Aitkenhead Copy Share Image
If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . .… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“In books we have the compendium of all human experience. We may use them or neglect them as we will, but if… — Sir Basil Blackwell Copy Share Image
“Few things contain and impact the immediacy of cultural impress so evocatively as books, and not only through their ideas. A book… — William Everson Copy Share Image
I begin early in the morning and edit everything I wrote the previous day. I write until mid-afternoon. My goal is to… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
I go to book stores to see if they have any miss prints on sale. I hate to read but I love… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of… — Gilles Menage Copy Share Image
The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit,… — Bob Kane Copy Share Image
“you know those self-help books that give you permission to love yourself? This one gives you permission to love punctuation.” — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it,the more it begins to come together… — Rabbi Harold Kushner Copy Share Image
I would go in the university stacks and pull out books like 'Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War II' when I was… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
I was always fond of books right since my childhood days. Even as a teenager, books were my company. Not that I… — Asin Copy Share Image
I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf. — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
This is one of the biggest reasons I'm a writer: I love creating worlds but also discovering worlds and getting into the… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
“The greatest and most difficult task of a writer is bridging the gap between reality...and the unimaginable” — Jason W. Blair Copy Share Image
I don't project no image. I just act like myself. I write about how I feel, the emotional stage I'm in at… — Waka Flocka Flame Copy Share Image
Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
Sacrificing one's life on the altar of literature is in some ways like sacrificing a goat to some malicious spirit. It's not… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic. — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“Trying to have your first book read when you’re a perfect stranger feels like waving at people, in a dark room, when… — Charles Bonnaire Copy Share Image
Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
“When did you know you were going to be a writer? I knew it when I was young, I forgot it in… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm - spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
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