“Daydreaming does not enjoy tremendous prestige in our culture, which tends to regard it as unproductive thought. Writers perhaps appreciate its importance… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Instead of writing down what you’re going to do (chances are you’ve been doing that your whole adult life anyway, and it… — Jeff Olson Copy Share Image
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
“Q: What's the biggest myth about writing? A: That there's any wildness attached to it. Writing tends to be very deliberate." [… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“He called it The Bridge because that was how felt about books. They connected the past and the present, the present and… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“If you read the books then you have no conclusion you do not dare to kick out this idea or theory "wrong",… — Khem Veasna Copy Share Image
if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
It's a beautiful idea to focus on how everything is temporary and always in flux. It may feel bad now, but it… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
“Shelves full of books are all around me. Opening the different volumes I take a look, and find the pages covered with… — Jonathan D. Spence Copy Share Image
“A person is never as quiet or unrestrained as they seem, or as bad or good, as vulnerable or as strong, as… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past.… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But… — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a… — Ike Barinholtz Copy Share Image
“In the quiet spaces opened up by the prolonged, undistracted reading of a book, people made their own associations, drew their own… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I am a very emotional person. I basically think and feel in emotion, so writing is much easier for me than communicating… — Kelly Oxford Copy Share Image
The only kind of notebook I actively dislike is the steno pad, entirely because of that vertical line down the middle of… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't… — Jill Ciment Copy Share Image
Your own private journal should record the way you face up to challenges that beset you. Do not suppose life changes so… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but they are not writing.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library,… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“She usually operated under the assumption that quantity tended to beget not only quality, but also traffic. The more you wrote, the… — Doree Shafrir Copy Share Image
“Worrying about your book’s marketing plan when you haven’t even finished writing the book is a noble obstacle. Weighing grams of carbohydrates… — Jon Acuff Copy Share Image
“A writer is an explorer. She knows she wants to get somewhere, but she doesn’t know if the somewhere even exists yet.… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“But for the rest of us, we should be regularly reassessing why we write. When we know what we’re going for (human… — Tasha Golden Copy Share Image
I haven't written anything yet that makes me think, This is it! and I don't imagine I ever will. I don't know… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream. Reading not only educates, but is relaxing and allows… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
A few times a year I'll remember that I love old literature, too. Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" is one of my 10… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in life quite… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
“A helpful exercise is to describe the situation from the beginning, either out loud or in writing, as if to a stranger… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
We read to learn and to grow, to laugh, to be motivated, and to understand things we've never been exposed to. We… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My four-year-old daughter regularly requests reading Book One [the March] at bedtime; the methods of reading, delivering, and processing the book's content… — Nate Powell Copy Share Image
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