“Write what's in you. Write readily and well. Then edit. Then share or send. Not before.” — Rodney Richards Copy Share Image
Paul Laverty is a wonderful writer and we've worked together for a quarter of a century. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
“A brick can be used to represent the zero probability of this book being any good.” — Amy Riekhof Copy Share Image
Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time trying to layer upon layer upon layer as I wrote. I think that's often the fear… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
If you want to be a well-paid copywriter, please your client. If you want to be an award-winning copywriter, please yourself. If… — Steve Hayden Copy Share Image
You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
When I start to write something, I suppose I want it to change me, to make me into something not myself. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
The most important sentence in a good book is the first one; it will contain the organic seed from which all that… — Paul Horgan Copy Share Image
It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
I'm usually really drawn to a song, and I know it would be good to cover if it sounds like something that… — Lorde Copy Share Image
Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There is a prevailing school of thought that something good must take time, sometimes years to create and hone. I have always… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“The moment that counts most for me is the moment that precedes reading. At times a title is enough to kindle in… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I love the apparent quiet of reading a book. You sit there; you're not really moving. It looks very solitary. It looks… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“There are those who wish to read everything. Do not try to do this. Let it > alone. The number of books… — Hugh of St. Victor Copy Share Image
One wouldn't want to say that what makes a good writer is the number of books that the writer wrote because you… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
