Writing, for me, is always a dance between the critical part of my brain and the subconscious. — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life. — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
“Books aren't made of pages and words.They are made of hopes,dreams and possibilities.” — Harlequin Copy Share Image
Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
Quite simply, my writing life has been one of relish, challenge, excitement. — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
“When a man writes on a wall, his instinct leads him to write above the level of his own eyes.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Everyone is so different. I sometimes wish I wrote in a different way. You know, that feeling of: So-and-so writes slowly, if… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If a book isn't teaching me something, pulling something out of me, then it will be dull for me and the reader. — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
My father, whose hobby was collecting secondhand cricket books, came back from a book fair one day with a copy of 'The… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
It's interesting when you write something for somebody else, and then you're like, 'Oh man, I just laid my whole trip on… — LP Copy Share Image
“They say the content and the cover are the most important things when it comes to a book or a novel, right?… — Jimmy Tudeski Copy Share Image
Both Proust and Joyce record the ways in which human perspectives can be transformed. In Portrait, Stephen Dedalus is constantly undergoing epiphanies,… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“It is the highest reward when a writer hears when a book written in doubt and solitude, has reached a human heart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They are more real than the books on the shelves, books that are sketched with the barest hint of a line here… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“But there is also the minority of gifted, wilful people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I'm pretty hardcore. I stick exactly to what I'm doing. So I write a novel in one period, and then I'll write… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
I have to be a freelance writer for the rest of my life, unless I get some kind of real lucky break.… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
