You can always find something better to do than writing when you're at home. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
Just be a cool grandpa who's creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library. — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something. — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
“I love reading books. You really get hooked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” — Daniel Radunsky Copy Share Image
It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature. — John Banville Copy Share Image
I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off. — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
“[Pliny the Elder] used to say that “no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it.” — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Learning hath gained most by those books by which printers have lost. — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed. — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
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I tend to only write productively for one to two hours per day, so there is plenty of time left over for… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was 5 years old. I would dictate stories to my mother, and she would copy them in… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising. — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
I think I told my parents I wanted to be a writer, just so they'd kind of think I had some direction… — Kyle Kinane Copy Share Image
“Everything in all the books I once pored over is finished for me now. Penelope Leach. T. Berry Brazelton. Dr. Spock. The… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“But don’t you think there some stories that are more alive than that? When you put certain books back on the shelf,… — Kristin Kladstrup Copy Share Image
I kind of build a novel the way marine polyps build a coral reef, it's millions and millions of little precarious bodies… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
As I considered Parker and his absurdist reflection in the Westlake-authored 'Dortmunder' novels, I wrote, 'His natural ability to observe human behavior… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Fiction can produce truth, and truth can be false. What does it mean to say that it's true that, what, two out… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
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