Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
If you look at the best-seller list, it is mostly thrillers. Very few books attempt to create an image of the life… — John Updike Copy Share Image
An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So,… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I like to joke that you usually write more books before death than after death, so that's why I'm doing it. But… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books. While I'm… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“From ... the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. ... I… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Being a journalist is good if you want to write books: it teaches you to get beyond the blank screen. My books… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to… — James Frey Copy Share Image
I read books when I was a kid, lots of books. Books always seemed like magic to me. They took you to… — Pat Murphy Copy Share Image
Before I left the 'Star' last year to write books full-time, I welcomed catastrophe. It was material. Missed planes, broken pipes, dead… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
I think at this point I only write books about questions I really want to figure out. They're indulgences, essentially. I think,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago, when I started writing, I didn't define myself as an African-American writer. And then you write books and you're… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Write as many books as you want, but remember that literature is never about quantity. Even the most popular works fade into… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
People who write books - they live in their own world as they're writing. But people who are doing shows or big… — Mike White Copy Share Image
Friends open the door for me to write. Then I get paid attention to and it allows me to write other books.… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I caution writers all the time to slow down and pay more attention to the work in front of them than to… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books if I hadn't grown up in… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
Writers are stewards of the culture. Publishers, librarians, bookstore owners. We're all in this together. To write books that are gripping, important,… — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
It was an interesting thing to do. Why did I write any of my books, after all? For the sake of the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
I love to read because I know that for a long time ancestors weren't allowed to. I love to write. Because for… — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
“Books are the best type of influence of the past...Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think about all my scenes. I do so much revising as I go along; I wonder how I could write books… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I write books to change the world. Perhaps I can only change one little piece of that world. But if I can… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven,… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write, but coming from a small-town background - I was born and brought up in Ludhiana - you… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
