Reading helps you to be knowledgeable. It also improvises your vocabulary. It's a very good habit, extremely essential. — Lara Dutta Copy Share Image
“In the great tradition of Paris Is Burning, bring out your library cards! Because reading is what? Fundamental!” — RuPaul Copy Share Image
The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power... I wouldn't hesitate right this minute… — Ida Lupino Copy Share Image
I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
Every writer has compressed time and procedure, and used clarifying dialogue. That's not a scandal: it's a legitimate dramatic technique. — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Writing is not what you start. It's not even what you finish. It's what you start, finish, and put out there for… — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Once I started getting paid to be a writer and not having lots of other gross responsibilities, like making the puzzle or… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
The great thing about literature is that you're making up your own interpretation of the character anyway. Also, you're given basically a… — Jamie Campbell Bower Copy Share Image
“Yesterday I was talking to a friend, and she mentioned there was a difference in me. She asked if I was happy,… — J'son M. Lee Copy Share Image
A lot of people ask me, 'Are you born a writer?' And I don't think it's necessarily true. I just think what… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
“A writer is a dangerous friend. Everything you say, all of your life and experience, is fodder for our writing. We mean… — Randy Murray Copy Share Image
“Want to write? Read. Want to write well? Read 3000 pages, and write 1000. At the end, you will be fluent in… — Richard Wyndbourne Copy Share Image
My writing day follows my family's day. I get a good few hours in the mornings when the kids are out of… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“It’s one of the great perks of being a librarian,” Julie said. “I can read whatever I want, whenever I want, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I write because I actually enjoy writing. It's a plus and a fringe benefit that, you know, I can actually provide for… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I was approaching the age of 40 with a substantial publication record, but had not yet held any position in a chemistry department. — John Pople Copy Share Image
If the day's writing has been particularly good or particularly bad, a glass of scotch will be involved. — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
“The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live, and so far… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I am reading Sienkiewicz. What tormenting reading. What a powerful genius! And there never was such a first-rate writer of the second-rate… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
I don't read anything anymore. I don't have the eyesight. I read my own copy, that's all. I think I've read everything… — John Gould Copy Share Image
My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“A writer needs a partner who can act as fuel to his artistic mind, yet has the great ability to sober him… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
When reviewers take the trouble to compliment a writer on her style, it is usually because she has made it easy for… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I actually write a lot, but mostly just daily gibberish. I am a documentation addict: "I just peed. I walked down the… — Brian Chippendale Copy Share Image
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