I think someone like Jack Kirby, for instance, would suffer greatly in the transition from print to digital were he still around. — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
I get up early. I like to read a little before anyone but the dog is up. I also like to read… — John Irving Copy Share Image
It's not easy to craft a novel that gradually erodes the reader's comprehension of the world, of reality and identity and the… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
A painter, a sculptor, a writer, they can express freely. They don't affect society as a whole. We build buildings that have… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
I'm an actor. I'm just a creative person. I figure if I wasn't a good writer, I'd take to renovating homes... not… — Andrea Gabriel Copy Share Image
Every time I finish a book, it's my favorite. I have a lot of favorites. I did just finish Jane Eyre and… — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
A Heart So White is simply one of the best novels I know. I'm also thrilled by Javier Marías sentences, by how… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
“I asked once, and the library assistant told me there were more than a hundred thousand books there, and more than sixty… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
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“There is no more important homework than reading. Research shows that the highest achieving students are those who devote leisure time to… — Nancie Atwell Copy Share Image
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“My gift as a child was writing. It wasn’t that I could write better than everyone else but it was that I… — Tony Gaskins Jr Copy Share Image
“The reader is the space on which all the quotations that make up a writing are inscribed without any of them being… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
There are writers you admire, for the skill or the art, for the inventiveness or for the professionalism of a career well… — James D. Houston Copy Share Image
“Perhaps,' I wearily suggest, 'reading is the opiate of the educated classes.' 'Is it? Are you thinking of becoming a flower child?'… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The premise, to me, is the most important thing that you have to know going in. It's the problem as you see… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
You can't hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
I like some of Annie Proulx, some of those very brief stories of hers. And I love J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello.… — David Shields Copy Share Image
... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
The first writer that I think of immediately that I studied with at Michigan is Peter Ho Davies. He was really important… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Might paint something I might want to hang here someday, might write something I might want to say to you someday, might… — Sara Quin Copy Share Image
Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big… — Bradley Cooper Copy Share Image
At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
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“Ah, the magic of books. The kind of magic that had nothing to do with witches or spells or charms. And was… — Heather Blake Copy Share Image
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed. — William Temple Copy Share Image
Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it.… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
“I learned that everyone or every place has a story, it just takes a writer to find it and make it ready… — Michael K. Brantley Copy Share Image
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile. — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
Every writer follows a theme, and mine is survival. If you can't figure out what a writer's theme is, look at the… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
“A piece of writing is never good,” he told me. “There is simply a moment when it is less bad than before.” — Joël Dicker Copy Share Image
We all know what fun it can be to get right into a book and live there for a while, but falling… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
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