“Seeing what someone's reading is like seeing the first derivative of their thinking.” — Ben Casnocha Copy Share Image
I find writing to be unpleasant, so the faster I can get it done, the better. — Ti West Copy Share Image
All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould. — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. — William Osler Copy Share Image
Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
So often in English fiction, people are either upper-class twits, or else they're knockabouts, less than human. — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were. — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the… — Timothy Healy Copy Share Image
“I tried to lift the book in a kind of salute, but it was way too heavy for that. In fact,when I… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot.… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
You don't write because someone sets assignments! You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
In 2014, as a Christmas gift, I wrote an essay for my husband, about our story. Writing that showed me there was… — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
“Write what you yourself would like to read, a story that will entertain and challenge you. If you try and follow the… — J.D. Trafford Copy Share Image
Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“Writing is an effort at truth telling, but each person’s version of truth and his or her means of conveying it are… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Many books open with an author's assurance of order. One slipped into their waters with a silent paddle...But novels commenced with hesitation… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
