“he said everyone had a book, or a writer, that was the key to their life” — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
“Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.” — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
“Q: Best part about being a musical theatre book writer? A: Explaining what that is.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things. — James Salter Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say. — James Howe Copy Share Image
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
By the time I get through writing a score, I know the book better than the book writer does, because I've examined… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You're reading as someone who wants… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
I learned that you have to respect how much time and work a writer has put into their book. I always give… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
“...if he can write a book at all, a writer cannot do it by peeping over his shoulder at somebody else, any… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
Books are just dead words on paper and it is the readers who bring the stories alive. Previously, writers wrote a book… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
After you publish a book, you become a writer and you're supposed to take it very seriously. You're supposed to show up… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization.… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
