Only difference between writing and speaking is you can write and express your feelings even when you are alone but you can't… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“I agree not to expect anything from Mother or you, but I do want to buy Undine and Sintran for myself. I've… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I understand why parents worry about books - they're worried about their kids. They want to keep their kids safe. But parents… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
I'm halfway through Patti Smith's memoir 'Just Kids,' which is heart-stoppingly vivid. It drips with beauty and hope and devastating candour. I… — Hattie Morahan Copy Share Image
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Andy Harp's RETRIBUTION is a stunner: a blow to the gut and shot of adrenaline. Here is a novel written with authentic… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
If you look at most womens writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and… — V. Vee Copy Share Image
The publishing scene in India is evolving rapidly, and the key challenge is to keep reinventing oneself so that one does not… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“Now she sat in their dining hall, a book in her lap but unread while she stared blankly across the room.Bercelak’s kin… — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
“But I especially loved being able to cross a day off after that particular activity had been completed. There was nothing more… — Jill Grunenwald Copy Share Image
Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“The house I grew up in is one of a kind. It’s a bibliophile’s fantasy, and if the Library of Congress had… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I'm uncomfortable trying to rush change of perception, except to the extent that I'm going to write a book. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
So, as a child in school, I used to write essays on how I spent my holiday or about a visit to… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the… — John Green Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I remember having read all the books in the library. I often tried to emulate my favourite… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer,… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature,… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“A writer should be on a quest to get better and better with each book. May it be a never-ending quest.” — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I think to be a writer, you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else had… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly. — Theodor Billroth Copy Share Image
Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“I wanted to give a sense of the people of the book, the different hands that had made it, used it, protected… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing. — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
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