Sometimes, you write things that sound really great when you're at home but don't work when you shine the light of an… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
“You’ll get so tired of Blair Water — you’ll know all the people in it — what they are and can be… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“As for advice—write as much as you can! Time’s ticking, and if you don’t throw everything you have into your stories today,… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“We draw our lines around these moments of pain, and remain upon our islands, and they cannot hurt us. They are covered… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You cannot write the pages you love without writing the pages you hate. Nothing that you write is pointless, useless, or unnecessary.… — Robin Black Copy Share Image
In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
FEARLESS is a vivid account of one man's journey from all-American boy to all-American hero. Blehm's writing takes you beyond the battlefield… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
“More people are leaving TV behind to read my books than ever before. In the last year alone I gained over two… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“I realize that people still read books now and some people actually love them, but in 1946 in the Village our feelings… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency.… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“She ran out of space for her libary some time ago, but instead of making the room larger she has opted to… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
But nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case,… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
My trouble is I'm the sort of writer who only finds out what he's getting at by the time he's got to… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
“In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Writing is a strange synthesis between the two parts of your mind: the analytical side and the side that knows nothing at… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
Writing with other people is absolutely delightful. It's social, which a writer doesn't usually get to do. — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“When we write with power and authenticity, it opens the door to our hearts and invites others in. When we're brave, we… — Lynda Cheldelin Fell Copy Share Image
A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter. — David Benioff Copy Share Image
“then to write this book. Jobs surprised me by readily acknowledging that he would have no control over it or even the… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Your case gives me new hope," I said to him. "With me, more and more often I happen to pick up a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime. — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I think 'Beasts of No Nation' is a novel that hopefully will affect each person who reads it in a different way. — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
