“The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“The best kind of writing is that in which imagination has free reign in the wilds of your mind.” — ChristaCarol Jones Copy Share Image
You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so you might as well imagine you've optioned them. — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
“The bookcases were lined with titles, hundreds of books shelved by subject in alphabetical order.-Everything from aberrant behavior to the mysteries of… — Tami Hoag Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Oh, Anne, things are so mixed-up in real life. They aren't clear-cut and trimmed off, as they are in novels.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I don't get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn't know which one to start next, block.” — Tyler Hojberg Copy Share Image
My father was weaned on books. I'm halfway between being weaned on books and weaned on television. And if you're weaned on… — James Burrows Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, it's because I'm trying to figure something out for myself. If I don't believe in what I've written, then… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I was a voracious reader and the library fed my curiosity, imagination and my soul. I read by the shelf - biographies,… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
“To the Reader" As you read, a white bear leisurely pees, dyeing the snow saffron, and as you read, many gods lie… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
So much of a novelist's writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
My secret for writing is going back to clarity. I'm very clear about what I want to accomplish-the goal-and then the next… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“[Writing about themselves] gives them wings, so that they can rise above the confounding maze of their lives and, from that perspective,… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“It is generally understood that a modern-day book may honorably be based upon an older one, especially since, as Dr. Johnson observed,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The world is full of people who write poorly but passionately, and others who can put a sentence together but have no… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I never work on a computer. I can't write on a computer. It's just not possible for me to do that. — James Ivory Copy Share Image
If life ever stops inspiring us to write, it's time to stop doing what we do. — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
“I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me.” — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity... — A. Edward Newton Copy Share Image
I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“On those trains you’ll be taking across Europe. A book light always comes in handy.” — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
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