James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease and intimacy with the process of writing; one comes to the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The key thing if you're a writer is to visualize the scene and convey it to the penciller and turn the penciller… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
Because all writers are human beings first and writers second, my guess is that any advice for living with a writer is… — Clyde Edgerton Copy Share Image
The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of… — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I wish podcasting was my only job - I have more fun doing that than I have doing absolutely anything else. But… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
I think it's really boring, from the point of view of the novelist, to write about yourself. Tedious. But that's very hard… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. Launch it into… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
“The room was lit with small reading lamps and there were books everywhere: piled on the coffee table, under the coffee table,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Having something worth telling and a passion to tell it are what make you a good writer. I can't tell you how… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
If you write, write about what you do and who you are, and you can't be wrong. Don't lie about anything. You… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I've written just about everything for the sake of putting shoes on the children's feet - and a bottle of gin in… — Ray Guy Copy Share Image
I know exactly what I want to write. I do not write until I do. Usually I write it all down only… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Books are what I escaped to when I was a kid, and books...unless they're just really piss poor, I get swept up… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
Perhaps nothing is more magical then the book. Paper, glue and some words and you are taken away from where you sit,… — Obert Skye Copy Share Image
There was a terrible fear for me when I started writing, which was that if you'd been denied unbelievably tumultuous experience, you… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I was in Los Angeles in 1968, and I was fortunate enough to be a writer on 'Laugh-In' and a couple of… — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Capote's rejoinder to the Kerouac assertion that he never needed to edit his writing: "That's not writing .That's typing.” — Joseph Cavano Copy Share Image
We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I don't quite understand what Tolstoy's actual personal view of Anna is - whether he likes her or hates her, whether she's… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Fiction is a tower of glass built from a million tiny truths, grains of sand fused together to make a single, gleaming… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
I feel that Nagai Kafu was a writer who cold stitch together apparently meaningless moments like these into a lyrical whole, and… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative. — Rachel Dratch Copy Share Image
“Being an author isn't just about making money or hitting the Amazon Bestsellers list, it's about the positive impact you and your… — Shannon Eckrich Copy Share Image
“I can't understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel when he can easily buy one… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
I do find that I tend to write about big questions. Why are we here? What are we doing? How do we… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is, and what shifts we make to escape thinking. There is no bore… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
No one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isn’t easy. But there… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
