But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing. — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them. — Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Copy Share Image
I tell stories about the people around me, I tell stories about me. I tell stories about my hood. — Goldlink Copy Share Image
“A true friend is like a good book, the inside is better than the cover.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“These books were a way of escaping from the unhappiness of my life.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I held a beautiful leather-bound copy of Moby Dick in one hand and my Moby dick in the other.” — Nick Pageant Copy Share Image
As Im writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“If you find holes in my book that you could drive a car through, do not be too sure they were not… — Mary Austin Copy Share Image
Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“A writer is first of all a reader. It is from reading that I derive the standards by which I measure my… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in,… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
My advice to all new writers - male or female - it isn't easy, but forge ahead and be true to your… — Lucy Simon Copy Share Image
It's a fine line between writing something with genuine emotional impact and turning into little idiots feeling sorry for ourselves and playing… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I don't think about the reader in any conscious way that impacts the writing, as far as, Hey, most readers would like… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
“Diane sometimes hears that Troy is an actuary. Sometimes she hears Troy is a florist. Sometimes she hears Troy is a cop,… — Joseph Fink Copy Share Image
When a writer with a voice as good as Richard Christian Matheson's tells you something, you have no choice but to listen.… — Michael Marshall Smith Copy Share Image
There were times when depression, anxiety, whatever, would keep me from writing. I still get depressed and anxious, but I just don't… — David St. John Copy Share Image
“External motivation is usually the most important to establish early in the book. Internal motivation can take a bit longer to develop… — Debra Dixon Copy Share Image
“Like so many of the other books I read, it never seemed to me like a book, but like a place I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Treasure nothing, be willing to throw out anything. The story you just wrote that you are proud of should not be coddled… — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
After 'Where the Wild Things Are,' I guess I felt more confident as a writer. — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
“Writing is good, thinking is better. Being smart is good, being patient is better.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that. — Fran Drescher Copy Share Image
The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Reading a book takes you on a journey without leaving the current place you are in.” — LaShonna Dyson Copy Share Image
The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
“Books! And cleverness! There are more important things — friendship and bravery and —” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Books are like imprisoned souls until someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
