What's important? That which is dug out of books, or out of the guts? — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
“If you want to write faster, the first step is to know what you're writing before you write it.” — Rachel Aaron Copy Share Image
I know I'm born to be a writer and a musician - that's what I love and am supposed to do. — Ruel Copy Share Image
Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different, — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
“I wished I had a book. It had been so long since I had read. Could a man forget how to read?” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
After I published my first book, my sister, known as Kali Willows, began writing. She fell as in love with it as… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts. — Theo Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm going to work… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“When you read you must get out of your own skin and into the skin of the people you are reading about,… — Norah Lofts Copy Share Image
Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing. — Peter Hook Copy Share Image
“I had written short stories that were thought worthy of preservation! Was it the same insignificant I that I had always known?… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“The principal theme of any autobiography revolves around the brushwork of self-transformation, the freeing of the self from the strictures of self-imposed… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he’s… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“Lately, because computer technology has made self-publishing an easier and less expensive venture, I'm getting a lot of review copies of amateur… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I only choose to write about people who are alive, are extremely powerful and as such have influenced our lives. I try… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
My mom would always say this thing about writing - and I've taken it into account in a lot of things in… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
Of course, I don't mean to imply that all writers are working in the deep waters that border on the divine. Most… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
