I write about what I know and also what I don't understand. Emotions for what has transpired. — Lucrecia Martel Copy Share Image
You have to be compelled to write. If you’re not, nothing else that you do matters. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments. — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Writers aren't exactly people, they're a bunch of people trying to be one person.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
I had thought up the title, 'The Good Luck of Right Now,' several years ago. I had no idea what it meant… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I work seven days a week, from 9 in the morning till 8 at night. I have the titles of the next… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Years of imprisoning and beheading writers never succeeded in shutting them out. However, placing them in the heart of a market and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
After I wrote my memoir, 'A Long Way Gone,' I was a bit exhausted. I didn't want to write another memoir; I… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
May I ask you something?" I say. "Why do you read books, when you could be outside, living a million different adventures… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Handwriting everything, for me, is psychologically useful because it keeps my writing economical. I think there are word processor styles emerging. Something… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I was writing for myself, not to be published. I was writing diaries, even letters, to myself or to anyone I was… — Katie Piper Copy Share Image
“We are next informed that bookworms, a term which seems to be held applicable to whoever has the smallest tincture of book-knowledge,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“By weaving their thoughts and feelings into the substance of reality, the Weavers had ensured anyone writing about them would secure an… — Louise Blackwick Copy Share Image
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