Sometimes it gets talked about as if life is all about the individual, and I don't think it is. I'm really interested… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“I write about pain so you know you're not alone. I've felt it too. I'm releasing it... in hope that you will… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I am a big outliner. For my adult book, 'The Visibles,' I did not outline, and it took me two years to… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
If I'm happy and joyous, which I have been a lot in my life, thankfully, I'm usually not at the piano writing… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
“Private libraries were extraordinary, Lady Elspeth de Moray mused. To have an entire room filled with books--- in one's own house ---… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
The shimmering, lucid tones and silver melancholy of I'll Be Right There give readers a South Korea peopled with citizens fighting for… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
“In the sense, that is, that the author who created us alive no longer wished, or was no longer able, materially to… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
Remember you love writing. It wouldn't be worth it if you didn't. If the love fades, do what you need to and… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Philip Roth is a fabulous writer, but he pretty much stays within his own life. He's so good - I mean, practically… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
“On to the library. And all through his time at the card catalog, combing the shelves, filling out the request cards, he… — Stephen Minkin Copy Share Image
I was always furious because you couldn't take out more than three books in one day. You would go home with your… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Seriously, I am a terrible plotter when it comes to my novels. Terrible. I love to kind of feel my way into… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“Reading a non-fiction book feels like a religious experience that forever moves my mind and shifts my heart toward greater knowledge.” — Rachel V Perry Copy Share Image
Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
It seems natural to me that as a writer, you should have some kind of, you know, there should be some kind… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
The quality of our reading is not only an index of the quality of our thought; it is our best-known route to… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
To make my diary a little different I am going to call it a Thought Book ... I have thoughts that I… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to… — Davy Rothbart Copy Share Image
I like to dissociate myself from the person I was even three hours ago. It's a natural requirement to be a writer. — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I'm quite nosy. Somebody will be reading a book on a train, and I'll go: 'How is it? Is it any good?'… — Ophelia Lovibond Copy Share Image
“If I wish to write anything across the pages of your life that I do not wish to ascribe my name to,… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“...but every living soul is a book of their own history, which sits on the ever-growing shelf in the library of human… — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
“first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“If books had not bound together the experiences of former generations, the shackles of later generations in their forgetfulness would not have… — Mahbud Copy Share Image
“The walls were lined with shelves, and she insulated their nest with volumes collected over the years. Their decor was the many… — Kenneth Calhoun Copy Share Image
“To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The effect of reading literary non-fiction that matters most to me is when the coin drops, and this happens in the company… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
I'm way more in my head acting than I am when I'm writing. So there's a weird love/hate on both ends. But… — Anders Holm Copy Share Image
That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
