If you're writing about what you're feeling about something, then you're in good stead. — Lewis Capaldi Copy Share Image
The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out. — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them. — James Ellis Copy Share Image
DONT LET ONE CHAPTER OF YOUR LIFE BECOME THE WHOLE BOOK…TURN THE PAGE — LEONARD PAUL ROSE Copy Share Image
I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
When someone thinks, "I liked his last book, I'll hope this new one is good" and shells out their hard-earned, I fervently… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project.… — J. C. Chandor Copy Share Image
In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“There's more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you'll see that beauty is a… — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
“The house was a vast labyrinth of books. Volumes were stacked from floor to ceiling on every wall, dark, crackling, redolent of… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“When we escape into a book, become absorbed into it, are magically transported, nothing becomes more visible, upon our return, than the… — Tiffany Eberle Kriner Copy Share Image
I remember reading To Kill A Mockingbird when I was 12. What I liked about it is that it was all seen… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
“It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This is a work of fiction, which, contrary to what any reader paying attention to recent events might assume, I began writing… — Joy Jordan-Lake Copy Share Image
In such novels as This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald depicts the spirit of the hour which is usually… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
“A person's books are private, not to be poked around by others at will.” — Kate Furnivall Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know — John Gardner Copy Share Image
What is your advice to young writers?Drink, fuck and smoke plentyof cigarettes. — Hemantsmarty Copy Share Image
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. Ive only ever had one. — Babloo Copy Share Image
“All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page...” — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I started writing it six and a half years ago, so the landscape has changed a lot in that time. — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Reading gets me through everything ... or am I reading to get through everything?” — Weise Thomas Copy Share Image
What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read? — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite — William Goldman Copy Share Image
To be honest, I rewrote 'Wicked Nights' a number of times. I just wasn't happy with the end result. — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Move on. It is just a chapter in the past, but don't close the book- just turn the page. — Brooklyn Copeland Copy Share Image
“The awful, ironic, glorious fix for the writing doldrums is to write the next page.” — Kay Kenyon Copy Share Image
