I always write three or four projects at the same time. They're stories that I want to tell, and usually I dump… — Pawel Pawlikowski Copy Share Image
I wanted to create an environment in which more than just personal essays could be represented, and in which stranger approaches to… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
It's my right to write on what I feel about certain incidents, and it's your choice whether to read it or not. — Mohanlal Copy Share Image
From beginning to end, the novel [Dissemblers] took about three and a half years to write. I didn't write it chronologically. — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
I write a lot about other people, like family and friends. I look at their lives and relationships and think, 'Well, if… — Dionne Bromfield Copy Share Image
When you write, you don't really think of how honest you are being - it's only when you record that you understand… — Christine and the Queens Copy Share Image
The book tells you everything you need to know. The book is the map of the world that you're in with the… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
There were always moments where I'd say, 'What else can I do with my life?' But when I was 30 years old… — Ricky Schroder Copy Share Image
“Whether the underlying cause of your dependency is a chemical imbalance, unresolved events from the past, beliefs you hold that are inconsistent… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Before I sat down and became a writer, before I began to do it habitually and for my living, there was a… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Raven-haired writer Emer Martin is giving a lunchtime reading from her fabulous new novel, Baby Zero. Emer Martin is a brilliant writer,… — Olaf Tyaransen Copy Share Image
I can blend words easily with my pen, and show concepts from deep within. Yet not everyone gets the message I send.… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
If you can propose a memoir, even if you are eighteen years old - and what do you remember? What are you… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“Each reader is but one chapter in the life of a book, and unless he passes his knowledge on to others, it… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on. — Jackson Pearce Copy Share Image
It is so impossible to predict how much influence what you write will have, and what sorts of anxieties and imaginaries it… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writer's block. I'll get stuck, but being stuck, I'll still write a verse. If you know where you're… — Rakim Copy Share Image
“A writer will find inspiration anywhere. They have to look and see, that's all. Then they have to write.” — Dermott Hayes Copy Share Image
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
“Stop that!” Ghost Hemingway ordered. “It’s like teaching goddamned cats to walk on their back legs.” He sighed. “Standing eggs on end… — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
At its best, writing is a dialogue. It's one of the things I love about children's: the fact that this dialogue is… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work… — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
“The lofty bookshelves sag Under thousands of sleeping souls Silence, hopeful - Every time I open a book, a soul is awakened.” — Xi Chuan Copy Share Image
But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas. — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The trick is to get people to read anything, to engender the love of reading. Once you can read, you can teach… — Jane Cleland Copy Share Image
I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I'd given up everything to be a writer, and if I didn't then go on to do that - to write -… — James Salter Copy Share Image
My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write… — Chris Daughtry Copy Share Image
These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's… — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will… — Malcolm Wilson Copy Share Image
“I'm not religious in the slightest, but there's something incredibly holy about books. It's a beautiful fusion of purpose and space,” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'It has always been a great comfort to me,That I could bring a Book, anywhere and to any Place I might Travel,… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image