... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
I like some of Annie Proulx, some of those very brief stories of hers. And I love J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello.… — David Shields Copy Share Image
I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“Might paint something I might want to hang here someday, might write something I might want to say to you someday, might… — Sara Quin Copy Share Image
At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big… — Bradley Cooper Copy Share Image
I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - that’s kind of a gift… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
I tell my students, if you're interested in marine biology or llama farming, follow that string. Yes, it will probably take you… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
You can't write an image, a metaphor, a story, a phrase, without leaning a little further into the shared world, without recognizing… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Leaving any bookstore is hard, especially on a day in August, when the street outside burns and glares, and the books inside… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I try to be aware of what I'm concerned about, aware of how I feel about myself in the world, aware of… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“Ah, the magic of books. The kind of magic that had nothing to do with witches or spells or charms. And was… — Heather Blake Copy Share Image
“I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime writer who ever lived. I am to the crime novel… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“I learned that everyone or every place has a story, it just takes a writer to find it and make it ready… — Michael K. Brantley Copy Share Image
Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it.… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed. — William Temple Copy Share Image
I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me. — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Many of the books I loved as a kid, that even my mother read as a child, are very slow going. Today's… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard." (Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
A painter, a sculptor, a writer, they can express freely. They don't affect society as a whole. We build buildings that have… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
It's not easy to craft a novel that gradually erodes the reader's comprehension of the world, of reality and identity and the… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I get up early. I like to read a little before anyone but the dog is up. I also like to read… — John Irving Copy Share Image
As Bridget writes to her son, in Bridget Jones' Baby - "if you just keep calm and keep your spirits up, things… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
I think someone like Jack Kirby, for instance, would suffer greatly in the transition from print to digital were he still around. — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
Every time I finish a book, it's my favorite. I have a lot of favorites. I did just finish Jane Eyre and… — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
I'm an actor. I'm just a creative person. I figure if I wasn't a good writer, I'd take to renovating homes... not… — Andrea Gabriel Copy Share Image
Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The premise, to me, is the most important thing that you have to know going in. It's the problem as you see… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
“Perhaps,' I wearily suggest, 'reading is the opiate of the educated classes.' 'Is it? Are you thinking of becoming a flower child?'… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
You can't hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
I learned that there is an inner strength that blossoms when one cleanses themselves by processing and attempting to comprehend their situation… — Dominique Jackson Copy Share Image
