I think other people's interpretations of what I've written are a lot better than what I have, because I don't understand a… — Cedric Bixler-Zavala Copy Share Image
I'm always reading. I've loved reading since I was young, and I've always loved sinking my teeth into a different world, especially… — Ellie Bamber Copy Share Image
Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put… — Natalie Imbruglia Copy Share Image
The skill set that lets you be alone in your pyjamas for two years writing a book is not the same skill… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Tom found himself writing "BECKY" in the sand with his big toe; he scratched it out, and was angry with himself for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
There's a part of me with every book that thinks, What would it have meant for me tohave had this book when… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
The inspiration of a single book has made preachers, poets, philosophers, authors, and statesmen. On the other hand, the demoralization of a… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
I edit as I go. Especially when I go to commit it to paper. I prefer a typewriter even to a computer.… — John Prine Copy Share Image
A large part of academic community is unthinkingly self-involved, producing reams of sterile writing - often consuming unbelievable amounts of public funds… — Gotz Aly Copy Share Image
As you get drawn more and more into other activities, like political activities, very demanding, you have to find different rhythms of… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium;… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“I've tried to explain to people that I don't 'love' writing any more than I 'love' breathing. It's something I do and… — Allison M. Dickson Copy Share Image
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I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considering it when Amanda Hocking was in… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Jay Abraham's client sent him $50,000 a month for a long time for writing one headline. That's what people who understand communication… — Eben Pagan Copy Share Image
I didn't finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldn't work and I didn't have… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
Mostly I wanted to be a writer, though for a couple of years there I wanted to be an animator, because I… — Catherine Jinks Copy Share Image
“The story of Ivan Ilyich life was of the simplest, most ordinary and therefore most terrible". Tolstoy defines living an ordinary life… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“I love storytelling when the writing spins through me like photons on their way to lighting the world.” — Kay Kenyon Copy Share Image
We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
When writing, you can't break physical rules. You can't have people come back from the dead. That's cheating. I am a kind… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I keep an ongoing list of my fifty favorite books, which I recalibrate whenever I discover a new one that seems to… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as writer's block," she proclaimed. "If you can't write it's because you don't have anything to say. Or… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“I’m working hard to edit my book, so I can get it up for sale so that nobody can rush out and… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I write all the time but often abandon things I don't think will go anywhere. It's rare that I'll labor over writing… — Robin Pecknold Copy Share Image
If I knew a story page by page before I started writing it, I just wouldn't do it. The process of discovery… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“A writer is a genius not when critics say so, but when her or his book pierces your heart and rips off… — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
Besides the drugs and counterculture, I started talking about myself, which is the first thing you do when you are a writer. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Just as my father read to us as children, I used to read to my own children and now read to my… — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Copy Share Image
The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
