When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
Some people like to purge out a draft and just let it go and then go back and fix it, but I'm… — Jim Rash Copy Share Image
“A deep level of personal engagement is key to good writing and complete immersion by the writer will translate into a richer… — Nidhie Sharma Copy Share Image
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book.… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“Alice heard a woman say, 'Before I start writing I feel affectionate, interested, and frustrated. In that order. Afterwards I feel relieved,… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
“He eyed in the far corner of the room the carton of books they'd schlepped across the pond(ocean) They were both fearful… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago I met a little girl with a book under her arm. I asked… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
The primary urge that motivates and engenders writing...is the writer's desire to invent and tell a story, and to know himself. But… — David Grossman Copy Share Image
Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there'll always be better writers than you and there'll always be smarter… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Often kids in a computer lab learn about word-processing, but if they want to write an essay, they write it by hand.… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
“To speak without shame about books we haven’t read, we would thus do well to free ourselves of the oppressive image of… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
I think people have a tendency to think of a writer as someone who wants to go take a walk, maybe case… — Roberto Orci Copy Share Image
Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“the proper mission of librarians: “to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities.” — The Atlas of New Librarianship Copy Share Image
I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I used to want to be fully observational, but I'm just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
“You don't have to burn books, do you, if the world starts to fill up with nonreaders, nonlearners, non-knowers?” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group. — Syd Barrett Copy Share Image
Honestly, the choice is: I can be a cheerful person, more awake to correction, more of a force for good ... when… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
“…secondhand bookstores have pilgrims. The words out of print are a call to arms for those who seek a Holy Grail made… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
“If I have not read a book before, it is for all intents and purposes new to me whether it was printed… — William Haizlett Copy Share Image
I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“remember, you were a writer before you ever put pen to paper. just because you were not writing externally. does not mean… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the… — Kelly Clarkson Copy Share Image
To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day. — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could… — Cynthia Weil Copy Share Image
Read all books in the world, it will not make you wise. Only wise ones are those who know, four letters that… — Kabir Copy Share Image
When I'm about to start writing, I pull up some of my all-time-favorite re-reads to feel inspired and fall headfirst into the… — Violet Duke Copy Share Image
Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as… — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
The books could be completely worthless, and things we don't even read now could be considered the most important books. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
