I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
What I really care about is writing... Some people feel about touring the way I feel about writing, which is, 'Whoa, I… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
You don't have to be the most amazing writer, you don't have to get top marks in your English GCSE, you just… — Steph McGovern Copy Share Image
The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to revise usually signals an amateur. — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. Because I have the greatest respect for the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
And what you do is you go into where your anger is, if you're writing anger, you go into where your hatred… — Timothy Findley Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I had a mother who walked to the library with me, and you can't walk to a lot of libraries in San… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“ (1) the Muse visits during, not before, the act of composition, and (2) the writer takes dictation from that place in… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“He who combines the useful and the pleasing wins out by both instructing and delighting the reader. That is the sort of… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Writers are either bullfighters, who risk all for art... or bullshitters, who make fake passes in an empty ring. To be a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'm always amazed that people will stand around books for hours and only look at the spine. I think I should write… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
If a writer is good at what he does, it's not easy to do a good job every day... To invent something… — Barun Sobti Copy Share Image
Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“What's crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you've set for yourself. (...) Basically a writer has a quiet, inner motivation,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Books entered my house under cover of night, from the four winds, smuggled in by woodland creatures, and then they never left.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time. — Jacqueline Susann Copy Share Image
I cannot think of a greater blessing than to die in one's own bed, without warning or discomfort, on the last page… — John Russell, 1st Earl Russell Copy Share Image
I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I write with pen and paper. I don't have a mobile or computer, because I know how great they are. If I… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
“Agents don’t sell books, good writing does. Plotting and characterization are what interest an editor. Agents negotiate contracts, but they don’t sell… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
I marveled at how they were all closed up, asleep with their secrets unseen until you reached up and took the book… — Deborah Lawrenson Copy Share Image
“Live in the library, for Christ’s sake! Don’t live on your goddamn computers and the internet and all that crap. Go to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
When Goldie Hawn wrote her memoirs, no one said Goldie Hawn was snitching. When Jane Fonda wrote her memoirs, no one said… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
“You look…happy,” Owen said as Nora stepped into the library. “Did you do something inappropriate?” “I’m not that happy,” Nora answered. He” — Timandra Whitecastle Copy Share Image
My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“one of the most pleasant qualities of a reader who has lived among books all his life is that he does not… — Maurice Francis Egan Copy Share Image
For me, it's always about what's on the page. I have tremendous respect for writing. When you recognize good writing, and you're… — Nestor Carbonell Copy Share Image
She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
The dedication of this book is split seven ways: to Neil, to Jessica, to David, to Kenzie, to Di, to Anne, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
