As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
I enjoy the acting, but I didn't plan on that. It fell into my lap, and I'm having a lot of fun… — David Labrava Copy Share Image
“No one ever spoke above a whisper in the staff lounge, but I felt the need to shush her anyway. I gave… — Nick Pageant Copy Share Image
“I enjoyed reading when I was a boy, but these days, I read all the time and it has rather taken the… — Laura Lee Guhrke Copy Share Image
In the summer of 1791, I gave up my concern in the 'New Annual Register,' the historical part of which I had… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“This leads me to the contention that simply messing around with books is one of the very best ways to pass time… — Julie Rugg Copy Share Image
I like a book. I like to read for four hours at a stretch. I think very few are the young people… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
Journal what you love, what you hate, what's in your head, what's important. Journaling organizes your thoughts; allows you to see things… — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I'm not typing. I write only by longhand. I've always written first drafts by hand and then once I was into a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Proceed with confidence, generating it, if necessary, by pure willpower. Writing is an… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing is just to write. It sounds so simple, but sometimes it's not. You can get so… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Am I making something worth while? I’m not sure. I write and I sing and I hear words from time to time… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Writing was never work for me. It had been the same for as long as I could remember: turn on the radio… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“from a most kind suggestion put to me by Mr Farraday himself one afternoon almost a fortnight ago, when I had been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Strand prides itself for its '18 miles of books,' and they are not kidding - that store goes on for da-a-a-a-ys.… — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The public library building, in my view, is just a little lower than the church, the cathedral, the temple, the synagogue and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I don't… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Writers do well to carefully attend to those moments of inspiration, because chances are that they're writing from a very deep place.… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
“My own schedule is pretty clear-cut. Mornings belong to whatever is new – the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
At 31, I decided to learn how to read and, at 32, read my first book: Lee Iacocca's autobiography. Ten years later,… — Diamond Dallas Page Copy Share Image
“Whatever you call me, my parents encouraged me to go to college and become a book lover, and to trust that I… — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
So much of memory comes from the beginning of our lives when we know the world for the first time with a… — Susan Shreve Copy Share Image
To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
I studied in New York. I fell in love with an Australian-born, half-Filipina girl. So we moved to Australia when she went… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either.… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“when paying more than $1,000 a day to write the chapter in a suite of an old hotel down the street from… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Creative writing is your ability to develop your inner tension, your libido, your supply of energy and electric charge, turning the charge… — Lara Biyuts Copy Share Image
I love revising. If you demystify the process, it comes down to four strategies: what can I do to make the draft… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
Writing about a place is, of course, one good way of feeling close to it, feeling you have made something out of… — Sean Michael Wilson Copy Share Image
[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
“It is my job to create universes, as the basis of one novel after another. And I have to build them in… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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