I've been asked to write my autobiography, but I've not been interested. — Shaun Ryder Copy Share Image
I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think. — Mattie Stepanek Copy Share Image
We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
“Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.” — Meagan Spooner Copy Share Image
“taken. No wonder Tack insisted I bring The Book of Shhh; he left clues for me in it.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“The annoying thing about reading is that you can never get the job done.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“I am a creator, writing like the wind, I carry the weight of a future world in the barrel of a pen,… — L.M. Fields Copy Share Image
“My faith in the future of literature rests on the knowledge that there are things that only literature, with its particular capacities,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I jerk off inside books and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you probably never heard. — Immortal Tech Copy Share Image
I only write about stuff that’s happened to me.. stuff I can’t get past personally. Luckily, I'm quite self-destructive. — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
“But this book does not offer a single page of original and unpublished work. What then is the need, now, for such… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you… — Larry Heinemann Copy Share Image
Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
Sometimes to write you need to do more than just appear at your desk-you need to take care of the part of… — Barbara Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Phunny Business is a breezy, vivid, funny, star-studded and delightful valentine to comedy, entrepreneurship and the All-American impulse to make something out… — Nathan Rabin Copy Share Image
The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The process of writing a book is infinitely more important than the book that is completed as a result of the writing,… — Theodore Isaac Rubin Copy Share Image
“Have you ever been reading a book and found yourself having to pause for a second and read a certain part again… — Emily May Copy Share Image
When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“I have owned over a thousand books at one time and that's only half of what I've read.” — Maryann Flasch Copy Share Image
I like listening to books as well, as that way you can iron at the same time. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“If you spare some space for a new book, also spare some time to read it.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a very good talker or writer but a pretty good filmmaker. — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
Paperbacks of those we deem classics should be cheap and sold at supermarkets. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“I keep coming back to certain books, and you—to try to find myself again” — john j geddes Copy Share Image
My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Everything I have ever written about has been about what's going on inside of us. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone! — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
I live or die for hip-hop and it's a beautiful form but you're a writer first and foremost. — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
Pen and pad on the dresser for me to fine tune it. I sat in the corner, made up my mind, do… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos. — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
