I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“I suggest that you become a writer to reduce the cumbersomeness of talking to many people individually, but with books you can… — Nicholas Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Also "Catcher in the Rye", which happens to be one of my favorite books, I just found that kind of useful. It… — Freddie Highmore Copy Share Image
When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
I wrote from the time I was four. It was my way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream. I wrote like… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
If you ask people if they enjoy crime novels, they'll say, 'Oh, my guilty pleasure is...' then name a really brilliant crime… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In general, the main themes emerge early for each book, even before the storyline and characters, as I research the time and… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“M. Proust was more severe than M. de Caillavet on Anatole France: "He was selfish and supercilious. He had read so much… — Céleste Albaret Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, literature, politics, and analysis came together, and I began to think more inclusively about the emotional imprisonment of mind and spirit… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“if I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a tendency when you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The art of injudicious reading, the art of miscellaneous reading which every normal man ought to cultivate, is a very fine and… — Maurice Francis Egan Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of Ernest Hemingway work and specifically The Old Man and the Sea. I researched the relationship he had with… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
“Yes, often, I am reminded of her, and in one of my vast array of pockets, I have kept her story to… — Mark Zusak Copy Share Image
Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes. — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
Respect the language in which you write. Be kind, develop good vocabulary, and be creative in writing beautiful sentences. Your prose should… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“We read Books to Learn, Earn our Living above all to live wisely and Creative Never forget good books are Long term… — Dr.T.V.Rao MD Copy Share Image
When you write a roman a clef, there is a tendency on the part of the reader to wonder how much of… — Dave Itzkoff Copy Share Image
I feel very much a part of what I'm writing about, and I'm writing about things that concern me on a daily… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I would love to see writing taught online because at university like Yale, there are not enough teachers who are able to… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
It's important to read because it's really good for your vocabulary. It's really good for your imagination. I enjoy reading because I… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
“If I behave like a good boy and take my Prozac...then I won't be able to write anymore. I'll have Writer's block… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
“To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“Reading, for pleasure and knowledge, has always been, will always be one of my favorite things to do. (Larry Brown: A Writer's… — Larry Brown Copy Share Image
“Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.” — Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst Copy Share Image
I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work. — James Purdy Copy Share Image
Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
