take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I just put off the writing until later in the day, but now I write early every morning… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying. I was 4 or 5 or… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“the whole point of literature, I think, is that it’s the best technology we have for communicating what another person’s life feels… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise.… — E. M. Delafield Copy Share Image
All reading was done in the early years out loud, there was no such thing as silent reading because you had to… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
“Lately, even the Waybacklist borrowers seem to be missing. Have they Been seduced by some other book club on the other side… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“I would browse for half an hour or so in the secondhand bookstores in the neighborhood. Owning my own 'library' was my only… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I've always said "Writer's Block" is a myth. There is no such thing as writer's block, only writers trying to force something… — Julie Ann Dawson Copy Share Image
I write both at home and at coffee shops, and I have a terrible work ethic - I have a tendency to… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
“As it turned out, Ilsa Hermann not only gave Liesel Meminger a book that day. She also gave her a reason to… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I write quickly with a sense of urgency. I don't edit myself out of existence, meaning I'll try to write 50 or… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries. J.B. PRIESTLEY” — Janice Lane Palko Copy Share Image
Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Sweetie, if you opened a book more times than you opened your legs,you might actually get somewhere in life. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The kind of writing that matters most to me is something you don't learn about. It's constantly coming out of what I… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“She is the founder and owner of Luft Books, an independent publishing company, and the author of Bias Cut, Lonely” — Morgan Richter Copy Share Image
I think of my life as a cheap novel. Part of you wants it to go on forever, and part of you… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, my parents were writers and they owned a bookstore, 'The Complete Traveler in New York,' so writing… — Mike Greenberg Copy Share Image
Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn't the monster know that… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think… — Crystal Bowersox Copy Share Image
“I’m not saying that’s all I have floating around inside my brain, as a writer, there are so many possibilities waiting for… — S.D. Neeve Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an author as far back as I can remember, mixed with occasional bouts of wanting to be a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I can write anywhere. But I don't use a computer, and I could never write on a laptop. I hate the sound… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great… — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
I write in public libraries and sometimes coffee shops. I can't write at home and gave up trying long ago. I need… — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
“Any one could write a book," said the taxi driver. "Yes, they could, but they DON'T," said Maeve Binchy” — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
When you're rereading or editing your book and you start to expect that this work is going to be reviewed, and you… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
“A voice, a tone, a feeling Deep inside, growing bigger and brighter. Shining against the dark area in my soul. Telling everyone… — Marcus J. King Copy Share Image
I've figured out in the course of my life that the one thing I'm good at doing is writing books, and it… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
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