I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away. — Youth Lagoon Copy Share Image
I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Mostly what ends up inspiring me and affecting my work are books by authors that I love. — Christine Sneed Copy Share Image
I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else. — Hugh Leonard Copy Share Image
Wherever we are, we can improve our chances of getting ahead by keeping a book in hand — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
“Any book thoughtfully read sharpens the mind and improves on and individual's professional potential.” — James F. Amos Copy Share Image
People expect me to be, first and foremost, a storyteller. I lead by telling stories. — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
“One of the most helpful tools a writer has is his journals. Whenever someone asks how to become an author, I suggest… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“The reader may ask how to tell fact from fiction. A rough guide: anything that seems particularly unlikely is probably true.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could… — Zosia Mamet Copy Share Image
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn't have a clue about women, but… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
“Mary lifted her own steno book. Only about six pages old, it still had its cool, slim heft and straight cardboard covers.… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“A lifetime's experience urges me to utter a warning cry: do anything else, take someone's golden retriever for a walk, run away… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Whatever you may have heard, self-publishing is not a short cut to anything. Except maybe insanity. Self-publishing, like every other kind of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The title of the work, its place in the collective library, the nature of the person who tells us about it, the… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
I don't think about it that much, but sometimes I am surprised by that. I sometimes wonder why I didn't turn out… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
“I'm also old... and my own gift for writing fantasy grows out of very literal-minded, pragmatic soil: the things I do when… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
I kept a lot of my thoughts inside myself. So, perhaps more than is normal, I'm always questioning my role as a… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“Productivity, I discovered, is a broad church that tolerates many creeds. Some successful academics write daily, others sporadically; some at home, others… — Helen Sword Copy Share Image
