I read continually and don't understand writers who say they don't read while working on a book. For a start, a book… — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
The experienced writer says to the anguished novice: 'Just do it; get something, anything, on to the screen or page, just establish… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
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I remember reading the book in high school and always thinking of Gatsby as this strong, stoic, suave, mysterious man who had… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
“For God sake write and don't worry about what the boys will say nor whether it will be a masterpiece nor what.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
People are used to streaming and binge-watching. When they see an author they like, if there's only one book, even if they… — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
“The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Totally captivating. Starhawk has created a magic land to which we can return at will for the kind of exotic romance and… — Elinor Gadon Copy Share Image
I think you often have that sense when you write--that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Writing is for stories to be read, books to be published, poems to be recited, plays to be acted, songs to be… — Frank Smith Copy Share Image
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The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly.… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
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“This is the kind of detail that is forbidden in literature; in a book, no one would dare combine a full moon… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
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In that way, any world you create will become real. The reader makes it so. The reader becomes implicated in the creation… — Pinckney Benedict Copy Share Image
Certainly I do not wish that instead of these masters I had read baby books, written down to children, and with such… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
I haven't written a novel or something that long, because I really am improvising all along and the story is growing new… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I do believe this to be the over-arching philosophy behind most of the books I've fallen in love with over the years.… — Marla Frazee Copy Share Image
There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
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“Between the covers a book can be a sin. I have spent many hours in search of a waking dream. And once… — Keith Donohue Copy Share Image
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“Lizzie could tell it was a book by the feel and thought that it was probably her father’s new publication. He’d kept… — A.G. Graham Copy Share Image
The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
I know the struggle from the inside out and I would never be so bold as to call myself a writer. I… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“I would quit while you’re ahead. Really. It’s an awful field. Just torture. Awful. You write and you write, and you have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means… — Lewis Henry Steiner Copy Share Image
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“I'm recapitulating...condensing...it's the Readers Digest style...people only have time to read thirty pages...apparently!...maximum!...that's all they have time for! they horse around for… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“He would like to be capable of writing as he thinks, quickly, without effort, the word as agile and dynamic as athletes… — Filippo Bologna Copy Share Image
“When we talk about books…we are talking about our approximate recollections of books… What we preserve of the books we read—whether we… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I'd gladly choose that of Julia… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
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