For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers. — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
“That's the thing about writers -on one hand evrything is sacred to them, but, on the other, nothing really is.” — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
“you see book is like a machine if it don't have gas it can't start just like our brain without book we… — Kelly Elysee Copy Share Image
Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
“what people write reflects what they believe—fiction is where you go to tell or read the truth that people will stare or… — Michael Marshall Copy Share Image
I wish I was a writer but I'm not. We can just hope that people realise that women actually have incredible stories… — Sarah Greene Copy Share Image
I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
When I first decided I wanted to be a writer, when I was 10, 11 years old, the books that I loved… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I’ve used the common wooden pencil in some of my writing as an example. When I ask audiences which is “simpler”, a… — Brad Cox Copy Share Image
“He reached out to stroke the spines of the books, as if they might whisper their secrets to him if he touched… — Christoph Marzi Copy Share Image
The story of 'A Dog's Purpose' flowed into me a set piece. The entire book was just there, as if I were… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff… — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I don't work with an outline, except a vague one in my head, a general idea of character, place, arc... I'm like… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
Life throws surprises, sorrows, sadness, and hardship, and I think that writing has actually grounded me. It kept me grounded when everything… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
I'm much more interested in writing about the things that engage and enrage me as an adult rather than in wallowing in… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“When people starts to enjoy a writer's pen, he becomes a legend even if his stories are neither long nor publicly surrounded… — A. Saleh Copy Share Image
Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve. — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
Books aren't just about enjoying a story. They're about escaping reality & walking away with a message of life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been approached for views about doing a book, but I never wrapped my head around it in terms of, where does… — Jeff Jarrett Copy Share Image
“He guessed he wouldn’t mind being a book. Books just did what they were made to do, like stars just shining out… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of… — S. R. Ranganathan Copy Share Image
'Walking and Talking' is my autobiography. It's best to do it that way, rather than spend months writing a book that then… — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his… — Colette Copy Share Image
My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Isn't it silly to talk of books as if they were just print and paper, when they are really stars and seas… — Zephine Humphrey Copy Share Image
Whatever a writer gets paid for his book, it's never enough. I think that's true. It's hard work. But in the end,… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced… — Jon McGregor Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I'm going to… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
“Current "literature" [is] well-written books in which disgusting people do disgusting things to other disgusting people for no apparent reason and with… — Roberta Gellis Copy Share Image
But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
When I got recognized as a writer, when I got the Emmy, I was more excited than the Emmys I had gotten… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
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