When anything important has to be written ... I think your hand concentrates for you. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity. — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“But Rosine had read books . . . so many books ... Her over-excited memory was filling her mind with terrifying images… — Maurice Renard Copy Share Image
Wait a minute, words in the prompter, script on my desk, vending machine upstairs out of Funyuns... the writers are back! — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“If you cannot buy yourself a coat, buy yourself a book, latter your book will buy you a coat. Knowledge is only… — Osunsakin Adewale Copy Share Image
In the study of management, unfortunately, many writers have been so anxious to articulate a theory in the form of, "If you… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
“Kindle is a revolutionary reading device, and we're excited that you have joined the millions of people around the world who read… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You need to know a little about a lot to write a book. The amount of research that goes into it- it's… — James Murray Copy Share Image
Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the… — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“Think of each detail as an egg. The writer keeps tossing them at us, one after another, seemingly unaware of the growing… — Lisa Cron Copy Share Image
You can win more arguments then you might think as a writer, even though you legally have no recourse, and your script… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
“I did worry at one stage that all my stories seem to revolve around secrets, lies and self-deception, but then I realized… — Jane Lovering Copy Share Image
“What the young writer needs to develop, to achieve his goal of becoming a great artist, is not a set of aesthetic… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Despite the natural belittling of one's self, the doubts, the insecurities, we have to wake up to the realisation that we all… — Yossi Ghinsberg Copy Share Image
“The standard heroes and heroines of novels, are personages in whom I could never, from childhood upwards, take an interest, believe to… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“...Maybe this was another reason why people read: not so that they would feel less lonely, but so that other people would… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
I think the number of books published by Mr. Disney has nothing to do with whether or not he is bringing literature… — Frances Clarke Sayers Copy Share Image
