If the world could write itself, it would write like…

“There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tolstoy. That's a whole, thrilling new…

— Mike Nichols

I have all the time and space in the world when I write a book.

— Diana Gabaldon

“It’s like Tolstoy’s quote: “All happy families resemble each other, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” All”

— Chip Heath

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

— Haruki Murakami

I'm a reader. I like - I'm a great reader. I keep going back, though, to certain authors, just like I love film, but…

— David Small

... good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.

— Bel Kaufman

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

— Jonathan Brandis

When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always…

— Nicolas Roeg

“Write whatever you like. If you haven't the facts, substitute lyricism.”

— Anton Chekhov

Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to…

— Helen Keller

I write like a two-year-old, and I can't spell.

— Harry Redknapp

I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like…

— John Steinbeck

That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it…

— Ruth Ozeki

“Write like you are the last person on earth; like no one will ever read your story. Tell the story YOU want to read!”

— Giuseppe Bianco