I like writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It's therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“I never wanted to write for writing alone, but for the story, for the characters, and most of all for the escape.” — Kimberly Humphreys Copy Share Image
The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I loved everything. I read everything. Art and poetry and literature and trash and sci fi. I didn't know what I would… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
“Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised… — David Hewson Copy Share Image
“I've maybe read a third of 'em. But I'm going to read them all. I call it my Life's Library. Every summer… — John Green Copy Share Image
“This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book after another. When she had… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“When dealing with writers it breaks down like this: a regular writer is your average everyday megalomaniac. Like every artist, there's a… — Hannah Strom-Martin Copy Share Image
You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want… — Anne Bernays Copy Share Image
When I first have an idea, I'll spit-ball it with my husband: he's my beautiful ideas sounding board. I usually have a… — Zoe Foster Blake Copy Share Image
I think this is the first time I've altered a book based on what you guys told me. So it's an occasion!… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and… — Lily King Copy Share Image
“You have to write. You have to sit down and do it every day. Find your method, your motivation, your tenacity to… — Catherine Cruzan Copy Share Image
I was 35, had always wanted to write novels, and thought that I had better do it while I was young enough. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Are we all on the same page, Delilah? The same page ? I don't even think we're even in the same library… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
I never conceived of not writing a novel. I believed - oh, God, I believed, it was an article of faith! -… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm,… — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied. — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
…books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Writing, for me at least, takes a lot of concentrated work and effort. It takes dedication and the willingness to do the… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so… — Karin Tidbeck Copy Share Image
There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy. — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
If a reader likes a particular author, they keep reading all his books, and if the supply is not kept up, then… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
