“I'm not trying to please anyone. I'm just trying to write a damn book.” — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“That's just the thing, I love so many of our book boyfriends, ALL of them actually." -Scarlett” — Erin Noelle Copy Share Image
“Leaving behind books is more beautiful. There are already enough children” — Margurete Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire. — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
You could figure out at least 80 percent of the context and meaning of a text if people used punctuation, and we… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Books for children get into schools. Committed teachers use books like mine alongside films, non-fiction and fiction to help children investigate and… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I could give you some names of Workshop participants who are as good as many who are being published but haven't had… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
I write sentence to sentence. That's the kind of writer I am. I don't have a plot when I begin. I have… — Lorraine Adams Copy Share Image
If I were running a campaign, I'd urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Katrina silenced me for two years. I wrote a 12-page essay on my experience in Katrina, and that's it. I didn't write… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Esther liked books out where everyone could see them, a sort of graphic index to the intricate labyrinth of her mind arrayed… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted. When I… — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
By the end of the book, it is quite different than the way you thought it would be when you started the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The novels are always morphing into something else now, some kind of hybrid, more of a ground that isn't so easily specified.… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“[A]fter all, the position of a reader in a book is very like that occupied by angels in the world, when angels… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Take heed to this, I can inspire you with my writings because I've been through a lot. — Frank Matobo Copy Share Image
Extrinsic reading rewards may not be necessary and may backfire. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.' — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Sometimes readers are telling me about what they read of my books and I don't remember at all. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
I'm a bibliophile and I usually read three to four books at the same time. — Kunal Kapoor Copy Share Image
In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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