Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all. — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I start writing at 7.30 A.M. and write till noon. I've never written a single word after 5.00 P.M. — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“The writer in him is only the shadow of the man, though so often we observe men whose art of writing is… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I always was intrigued with writing my own stuff, and I was always really bad at learning other people's stuff. — DJ Ashba Copy Share Image
When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I grew up as an avid reader. I would go to the library and check out 40 books a week. Some of… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
I used to only like writing with pen and paper, but because I travel so much, I started to lose the paper. — Saweetie Copy Share Image
Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - that’s kind of a gift… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“WELCOME to my bookamabob! Buckle your cravat and prepare for have your whiskers quiver. My story of struggles, successes and sergei is… — Aleksandr Orlov Copy Share Image
Writing the short story is essentially an act of grace. It's not a matter of will so much as trust. I try… — Paulette Alden Copy Share Image
I do not often follow my characters off on tangents or change my story on a whim. I have an outline which… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Historians, to be sure, have subsequently dug about in the byways of American culture and exposed signs of rebellion and dissatisfation with… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
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