'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer. — George Clooney Copy Share Image
“No book has worth by itself, but by the relation to what you have from many other books, it weighs.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I didn't say I have to be a writer, but I did say that I needed to publish at least one book. — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me? — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have books to read, and much to sit and watch. I try not to let good things go by unnoticed.” — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity. — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
First and foremost, I am a writer. That's what I have spent my life doing. — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it. — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea of a book being a test or being used for a test. The way - in my… — Avi Copy Share Image
“I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is… — Zaeema J. Hussain Copy Share Image
You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration.… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve… — Eliza Leslie Copy Share Image
“We hear them continually on TV: hence they occur first when it is our turn to talk. In this regard, talk may… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Some day, as soon as a book is printed it will be simultaneously put into digital form. That will be a wonderful… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“books: Nancy Drew, Harriet the Spy, Encyclopedia Brown, and later, anything with even a passing mention of sex in it: Judy Blume’s… — Ivan E. Coyote Copy Share Image
To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave… — Florence Griffith Joyner Copy Share Image
“Writing places a person in the community of those imaginative spirits whom preceded their birth. Writing also connects a person with the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels basically are… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Mostly I'm just writing books for the public, and so I try to describe for the public what the choices are, what… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
