Every day I write. I am not waiting for a great idea from heaven. — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Priya Gowda had never met a book she wouldn't read, and she'd met a lot of them.” — Faith Mudge Copy Share Image
The monsters demand less of you as a writer because they're probably closer to who you are. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process. — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously. — Carole Maso Copy Share Image
For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“You know what a publisher is? He’s a failed writer whose father was rich enough that he’s able to appropriate other people’s… — Joël Dicker Copy Share Image
Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
From 2001-2008, I was the host and a writer for the WB's weekly television program 'Weddings Portland Style.' — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
“My hiatus is over, my soul and body are healed, but I will never leave the purple chair for long. So many… — Nina Sankovitch Copy Share Image
If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
I didn't intend to become a short-story writer. I became one because I finished a couple of short stories and realized that's… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Deep reading refers to a whole continuum of processes that include some of the most important things about thinking and how we… — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
“Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours. Who would we be if… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“To get a true sense of the book, I have to spend a few moments inside. I'll glance at the first couple… — Amy Krouse Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“This is a record of woman’s entire life, written over a woman’s entire life. As such, it seems to be the first… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“A long time ago, I opened a book, and this is what I found inside: a whole new world. It isn't the… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
“Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can take from the world… — Franklin Rosemont Copy Share Image
I believe the only way a writer can keep himself up to the mark is by examining each story quite coldly before… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
