Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“Writing, an expression of freedom, is an unobtrusive reflection of a contemplative soul.” — Rian Nejar Copy Share Image
I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession. — Nancy Grace Copy Share Image
“I don’t know how [books] accumulate like that. They’re part rabbit, I think.” — Beatriz Williams Copy Share Image
I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read. — Vanessa Brown Copy Share Image
“Firelit rooms lined with books - these are the places in which important things happen.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Generally my favorite remarks always come from my readers. I've had people say my books made them laugh, or cry, or that… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion. — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“ When you are young and strong...you can stay alive on your hatred"…but realized later "They can take everything from me except… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the… — William Sansom Copy Share Image
Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another. — Robert Munsch Copy Share Image
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant. — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
My aspiration was to write a book that you could still read in 10 years. That's hard. Then you start doubting every… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
I think my job is to try and be as honest as I can with what is in my mind and how… — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“He doesn't understand that books don't get used up. I've tried to explain that they aren't like clothes or furniture - that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In live-action, writing, production, and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue… — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in… — Janice Galloway Copy Share Image
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