I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
“If reading makes you happy, do it. Whatever makes your heart sing and brings you joy, do that too.” — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
“Write the tests first, or second, or third. But write the darned tests.” — Russ Olsen Copy Share Image
There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the… — Al Capp Copy Share Image
“Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that… — Joshua Rogers Copy Share Image
When people come up to me and say, 'I read your book,' I'm thinking, 'How dare you! Who gave you a copy?' — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“People say to me they don't have time to write and I just look at them like they're crazy. Like I have… — D.A. Nelson Copy Share Image
A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I have to write the story I want to write. I never wrote them with a focus group of 8-year-olds in mind.… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Words only write your words if you dont your heart will fall in drop it, dont let it drop leave it all… — Natalya Johnson Copy Share Image
“Writing consist of everything. whether your writing is of riddles, rimes, prose, trivial, general, of thought, or of feeling. indiscretions you've done… — Michael Stuckey Copy Share Image
Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice - a black male doing it… — Dhani Jones Copy Share Image
I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
“The novelist Umberto Eco famously kept what the writer Nassim Taleb called an “anti-library,” a vast collection of books he had not… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“Do you write every day?' 'Oh, no. Oh, I sort of try. I don't work very hard, really. Really I'm on vacation.… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Good writing starts strong. Not with a cliché (“Since the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
I've gotten used to spending more time with heavily narrative stories. — Joshuah Bearman Copy Share Image
I've been in various roles in TV - writer, producer, associate director. — Smriti Irani Copy Share Image
“We all live our lives, but a reader lives a hundred other lives.” — George RR Martin Copy Share Image
The Chinese have a habit of reading. Many families regard books as the most valuable family asset. — Li Yuanchao Copy Share Image
Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves? — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
To keep something around just because it is already on the books, I think, is wrong. — Sam Graves Copy Share Image
“The only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM” — Wendy Wax Copy Share Image
We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked. — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
I think as a writer, it's important to show the other part of being gay, not only the sex part. — Luis Negron Copy Share Image
Writing is the process of asking the next logical question. — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
