As for Tenacious D, of course it could work as a full length movie; all it requires is a great writer and… — David Cross Copy Share Image
You can catch a scent in the wind - an idea, or a concept - and follow it. You can delve into… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What is a literary festival? Imagine a sort of cross between school and church. There are no actual festivities; what there are… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story. — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books. — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
I really just choose stories that are compelling, have interesting trends and characters, and hopefully say something larger about society. — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Giving your friends the evil eye, as you attempt to convince them that they took you away from your book, and it… — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I thought a book on miracles might be a great idea, but just because it's a great idea doesn't mean I'm supposed… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
I'm not one of the people who has a kind of scholarly hat and writes in a certain way for an academic… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and… — Steve Leveen Copy Share Image
I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
When one crosses over from an activity, or the verb, of writing or doing, and becomes a noun, like "a writer" I… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Success is not measured by bestseller lists. Certain types of great books sell very well; other types of great books don’t sell… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I do feel like I write the same story again and again. And for me, I am always looking for a… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Bodley’s librarian Thomas Hearne responded gallantly that Wood himself was ‘always looked upon in Oxford as a most egregious, illiterate, dull blockhead,… — Diane Purkiss Copy Share Image
I write on a very strict 2-hour-a-day schedule, and I really respond to structure and invented rules. So even if I'm finding… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“I love the smell of a new book, but I prefer inhaling fresh bottles of ink and glue. They get me more… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
Never buy hardcover books. They are designed to sell to those who don't actually read. Along with books, many other things can… — Jia Pingwa Copy Share Image
When I write It's like the keys pull my fingers to them and I put the letters on the screen right back… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
There are tons of really good writers out there, but for one reason or another, they just have not had the support… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
I've never consciously tried to 'make hits' nor do I feel like that will ever be apart of my psyche. I just… — Matthew Koma Copy Share Image
In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse. — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I think, reading about yourself through somebody else's eyes, you're always going to have your own story. — Greg Sestero Copy Share Image
“I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
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