It's weird for me to say I'm lucky when I can't go into a bookstore and have more than five choices if… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The story of John Nash is an amazing, powerful journey. But as unique as this man is, his story is also very… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
I enjoy storytelling. I like to write it, I like to direct it, I like to act in it, I like to… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
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Whenever I sat down to write something it was never anything I took lightly. It was something that I'd want you, somebody… — Rakim Copy Share Image
The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“There is nothing,” Naudé wrote, “that renders a Library more recommendable, than when every man finds in it that which he is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The return to a favorite novel is generally tied up with changes in oneself that must be counted as improvements, but have… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Read good writing, and don’t live in the present. Live in the deep past, with the language of the Koran or the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I'm thinking my next book should be set on a tropical island, which will obviously require days, even weeks of meticulous research,… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Books and bookcases cropping up in stuff that I've written means that they have to be reproduced on stage or on film.… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“remember Stephen King's First Rule of Writers and Agents, learned by bitter personal experience: You don't need one until you're making enough… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm not that sort of writer where I can restrict myself to a theme, just in case nothing good comes of it. — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've always viewed writing as an outlet for being vulnerable and all that comes with that. You are able to let things… — Bishop Briggs Copy Share Image
What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
“Writing is not just my Hobby . Pen is mouthpiece of my feelings,I have no another one But paper is my best… — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
No, originally I thought that writing articles would keep me from having to see a psychiatrist, but I became even more depressed… — Theo Van Gogh Copy Share Image
You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
When you come to another bridge in your life to cross, move on. Looking back, It's just a chapter in the past,… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to take English lessons and… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the… — Jean De La Bruyere Copy Share Image
Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
I like to start with the first chapter, end with chapter 40. No flashbacks, nothing fancy, just a direct storytelling. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I've never signed a contract, so never have a deadline. A deadline's an unnerving thing. I just finish a book, and if… — Marchette Chute Copy Share Image
When I do actual sequential work, I really want a story I can get a behind: a story that really holds my… — Brian Stelfreeze Copy Share Image
Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about. — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
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