“Reading is one way I cope. I go somewhere else for a while and submerge myself in the character's problems instead of… — Stephanie Lawton Copy Share Image
No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As soon as I finish meditating, I get a beautiful feeling of expanded consciousness. When I'm in this headspace I can make… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
The average career span for a TV writer is 11 years. The only other thing I could find that had the same… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
“It’s always encouraging to be told that it is intellectually acceptable to read the sorts of things that you like to read… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“...In the end I value literacy more highly than health; if our two countries were full of fat readers, rather than millions… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Don’t start right off writing the ‘Great American Novel’, that's too much pressure and you'll get disappointed; start with porn, it’s fun… — scavola Copy Share Image
I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing. — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
The reason I choose the stories I choose - and it's why it takes me so long to find ideas - is… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“So it goes as I work my way down the page, and each cluster of marks is a word, and each word… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
That's really the essence of what any fiction writer does. Some of it is research-based, but most of it is a really… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I shall always feel respect for every one who has written a book, let it be what it may, for I had… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I'm one of those writers who can't talk about what they're working on. The entire four years I was writing 'House of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She sat there reading; cool, calm and collected. "You could ruin his life with that information," her friend reported triumphantly. The woman… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“I have yet to face Writer's Block and I don't believe I ever will. It is much more difficult for me to… — Kenneth J. Ester Copy Share Image
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
I write in bed, too. I find it very comforting. I want to sort of, like, crawl in a fetal position if… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
“T. S. Eliot taught us you can write about your nervous breakdown, but call it 'The Wasteland' and make it big and… — Mary Jo Bang Copy Share Image
I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since. — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
It's so easy to get caught up in your own self-doubt when you're writing. It can be so easy to tell yourself,… — Michael Cera Copy Share Image
You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life. — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books.” — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I'm not too concerned what happens to my books after I'm dead. But I am very concerned by what's going on with… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“My bookshelf was my favorite part of my room. It had a calming presence. Maybe there was something to be said about… — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
“Real reading is reflex action; the born reader reads as unconsciously as he breathes; and, to carry the analogy a degree farther,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Write and create what you really feel; it's the only way you can convince your audience that you're worth delving into.” — Zack Copy Share Image
The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be… — Joseph Kanon Copy Share Image
Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Books have been my classroom and my confidant. Books have widened my horizons. Books have comforted me in my hardest times. Books… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
“The point of freewriting is to get past the voice inside your head that tells you your ideas aren't good enough, your… — M. Molly Backes Copy Share Image
“To become less and transmit more, to replenish energy with wisdom - some such hope, at this more than midpoint in my… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“What I like most about the stories I write is exploring other lives and professions. It's a way of having all the… — Katie Fforde Copy Share Image
