What I really value about being a writer is that I can go to rehearsal when I want to, and then, when… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
Having a sense of fun in books is a huge, huge deal, because a lot of times kids - even me when… — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation,… — Peter York Copy Share Image
“I love the unanswered question, the unresolved story, the unclimbed mountain, the tender shard of an incomplete dream. Most of the time.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
My heart right now is totally connected to a book called The Servant of the Bones, which is not in any way… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I got a couple of different contacts from publishing companies saying they'd be interested in a book about my work: not a… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Helen Tse tells a gripping tale of struggle, laughter, love and food that marks Sweet Mandarin as a must read book. It… — Ken Hom Copy Share Image
A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to… — B A Billingsly Copy Share Image
I read continually and don't understand writers who say they don't read while working on a book. For a start, a book… — Paul Lynch Copy Share Image
“I forged more notes and my trips to the library became frequent. Reading grew into a passion. My first serious novel was… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“She wildly burned for the one she loved and he stood there watching, hoping he too would catch a blaze from the… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I've thought about writing, but it hasn't happened yet. It's like schoolwork - you start doing your revisions two nights before you're… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't feel that I decided deliberately I'm going to write something and have it stand alone. Somewhere by the end I… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
I think for some reason people are drawn to stories of all kinds, for some reason they land harder when they are… — T Cooper Copy Share Image
The joy of reading can take you so many different places. In addition to intelligence and stretching your mind, I just think… — Gayle King Copy Share Image
Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick. — Red Smith Copy Share Image
“The best books act like a powerful drug--they take you out of your own head into experiences, emotions and settings a million… — Anonymous-9 Copy Share Image
There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as… — John Grogan Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the writing flows, sometimes it's like wading through concrete. But I keep showing up each day, whether the Muse joins me… — Bruce Hale Copy Share Image
Don DeLillo's 'White Noise,' which I read when I was 19. It showed me that a book can be funny as hell… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
“Book lovers were also fools, in a way. Everyone knew they could never find love, because all they did was compare real… — Seth King Copy Share Image
Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother. — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
“We get one chance at this life. We have one body, one mind, and one life to live. Reading provides us with… — Tony Reinke Copy Share Image
It's beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it… — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
“Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.” — R.L. Stine Copy Share Image
Self-publishing is fine. But in a world of self-publishing, where everything is about what you get on the back end, there's a… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
