You need to cultivate love for books, it doesn't come to everyone naturally. — Lara Dutta Copy Share Image
Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer's reputation. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting. — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
“Why don’t we approach literature like we approach music and the fine arts?” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
'Batman' readers are the smartest readers in the world. I don't have to hold their hands. — Tom King Copy Share Image
Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“But she did have to do something creative, even if it was just some little thing, because she was not writing, and… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
“If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live… — Patrick Nowell-Smith Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of writers. There are architects and gardeners. The architects do blueprints before they drive the first nail. The… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The scene that scares you the most, that you don't want to write because it's the most difficult to write-that's the one… — Marcy Dermansky Copy Share Image
“As you make those daily choices about what to spend your time on and which possibilities to pursue, the author and consultant… — Warren Berger Copy Share Image
When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Literature may make the reader reexamine some of his or her own conventions, look at himself or herself in a different way,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
And while good books - even so-so books - serve both functions, if you ever have to choose one over the other,… — Pete Dexter Copy Share Image
It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I write everything down. I e-mail the second I think of something, or I write notes in my BlackBerry calendar. I set… — Giada De Laurentiis Copy Share Image
