I'm very interested in storytelling and anything that plays with structure. — Matthew Bourne Copy Share Image
“See my blog at crossedeyesanddottedtees.wordpress.com for more of my writing.” — Ellie Presner Copy Share Image
I love to be read to, I love to read aloud and I love to read to children. — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
I just write what I think is funny, or interesting, and hopefully everything else will take care of itself. There's no strategy… — Romesh Ranganathan Copy Share Image
“How can I shake and dispel the awful reputation of being an "erudite" writer? I’m about as erudite as a traffic cop.… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I'm locking myself in a room. I'm the worst critic in the world. I write something and then I… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
Reading was my escape growing up in Ohio. Both of my parents lost their jobs when I was a teen, and it… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about… — Hazel Rochman Copy Share Image
In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of interesting stuff on TV. I feel much more optimistic about TV than I do about movies.… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I've had journals ever since I was really little. Sometimes I write poems and stuff, but for the most part I write… — Miranda Cosgrove Copy Share Image
“I love books. I adore everything about them. I love the feel of the pages on my fingertips. They are light enough… — Nnedi Okorafor Copy Share Image
I tend to write things seven times before I show them to my editor. I write them seven times, then I take… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became the first… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
When people write about someone else, you have to take it with a pinch of salt. — Sophie Rundle Copy Share Image
Think books aren't scary? Well, think about this: You can't spell "Book" without "Boo! — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
In writing, something is always left out: it can't be articulated in the space of an essay. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“When I'm writing I can write anywhere; when I'm not writing I can't write anywhere.” — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Procrastination: as endemic to and dreaded by writers as writers' block. — Jenna Blum Copy Share Image
“I write because I have to; because I wouldn't know what to do with my hands if I didn't.” — Angeline Trevena Copy Share Image
People who know and love the same books as you, have the road map to your soul. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it come as sincerely from the author's… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
One reads books for knowledge, as one would breath Oxygen to survive! — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
“The free-lance writer is one who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.” — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
