You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration.… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve… — Eliza Leslie Copy Share Image
“In the library I was handed a blueprint on how to live the mysterious, unnamable, big dream life I wanted. I was… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
From 2001-2008, I was the host and a writer for the WB's weekly television program 'Weddings Portland Style.' — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
“My hiatus is over, my soul and body are healed, but I will never leave the purple chair for long. So many… — Nina Sankovitch Copy Share Image
I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library,… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but they are not writing.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I love all of my children equally, all of my printed books, and each one bears a special piece of me. But… — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past.… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a… — Ike Barinholtz Copy Share Image
As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
“In the quiet spaces opened up by the prolonged, undistracted reading of a book, people made their own associations, drew their own… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
“What's the point in being smart enough to read, if everything you read makes you dumb?" - Fatts - Coffee and Sugar” — C. Sean McGee Copy Share Image
“If you must slander someone, don't speak it - but write it - write it in the sand, near the water's edge!” — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
A librarian is not a legal process. There is not librarian in the country unless she or he is a lawyer who… — Judith Krug Copy Share Image
When it comes to e-book playback devices and software, I have always thought that the emphasis on ergonomic concerns as a tipping… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I genuinely miss writing now on the rare days I don't write; my mouth waters when I think about writing, and I… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously. — Carole Maso Copy Share Image
“In every person there lies a book that can be enjoyed by others only by escaping through the lips or finger tips.”… — Jim Conover Copy Share Image
If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“You know what a publisher is? He’s a failed writer whose father was rich enough that he’s able to appropriate other people’s… — Joël Dicker Copy Share Image
I still use felt tip pens for my notes, on a white board that I carry around with me. I am not… — John Motson Copy Share Image
How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
Writers find common ground not through the homelands they once inhabited but the thematic questions with which they grapple. — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it.… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
“If we place the books randomly, how are they ever found again?' She smiled. "The books just seem to know to go… — Sean Ferrell Copy Share Image
“Honestly...this is why I write. I write to get the happy ending I sometimes feel is eluding me. I write for my… — Debora Dennis Copy Share Image
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Sidda can't help herself, She just loves books. Loves the way they feel, the way they smell, loves those black letters marching… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
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