“All writing is a sin against speechlessness,’ Beckett had said. He would have stopped, I thought, if he could.” — Tim Parks Copy Share Image
There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl.… — Barry Sonnenfeld Copy Share Image
I have been working in television for quite a long time. In television, the writer is the constant, and the director is… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I published 'Rules of Civility' while I was still working. It became a best seller. I was working on this book, and… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I write 1,000 words a day first thing in the morning but I cannot write 240 characters to describe a piece that… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
Write Your Diary daily, write you experiences, your feelings, your truth, your habits. And when You Read it after few years.. you… — Chakshu Aggarwal Copy Share Image
Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written… — Adam Clymer Copy Share Image
“My writing doesn’t improve if you think it’s great, and it doesn’t lessen if you think it sucks. Likewise, you not showing… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“At it's best,the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look… — Annie Dillard (Author Copy Share Image
“If you found this book in the New Age section of your local bookstore, it was grossly misshelved, and you should put… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“But I do go in for books. I love to own books. Though I read few books twice, I have filled every… — Joe Bennett Copy Share Image
I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
I always loved writing, but I feel like I really started writing when I got my BlackBerry . It was the first… — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“When a chapter of your Life Book is complete, your spirit knows its time to turn the page so a new chapter… — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It's a mistake to lie to a librarian, you know. Some people assume we're shy and gullible, but we know how to… — Virginia Lowell Copy Share Image
“People can’t read a book if they don’t know it exists. All authors need to do marketing, regardless of how they published.” — Jo Linsdell Copy Share Image
As I'm writing it, I'm kind of curious to see what's going to happen. It almost feels like I'm the writer and… — Jazmine Sullivan Copy Share Image
Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
After the show comes out, I don't remember, Oh, it was written like this, and then I added this, because I'm not… — Janelle James Copy Share Image
“I can read people like an open book, especially if their named Braille, and I’m in a touchy-feely mood.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Who knows where the talent goes? Sometimes it goes where the money is. Sometimes I think writers are really interested in the… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
“Read the right books. Learn how those who have preceded you have handled the challenges you are currently facing.” — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
“The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I am a commercial writer and I'm proud of that. I am writing things to be put in the bookstore next month.… — Michael McDowell Copy Share Image
One thing I discovered is that the book world is vast. It's easy to walk around the store - even the room… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder,… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
If any of my plays outlive me or get on library book shelves and somehow stay read, all of a sudden it's… — Quiara Alegria Hudes Copy Share Image
For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in… — Avi Copy Share Image
