Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Nobody can swashbuckle a quick-witted riposte like Emma Thompson. She's a writer, a real writer, and she has a relish for the… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing… — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Exploring the thought process through visual journaling is essential in a world that is in continuous change. — Michael Bell Copy Share Image
This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it. Eeyore — Eeyore Copy Share Image
You will have to write and put away or burn a lot of material before you are comfortable in this medium. You… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I thought of To Kill a Mockingbird. I had finished reading it one night in a bunker, my knees bent and hunched… — Michael Anthony Copy Share Image
M. J. Putney's writing has always been magical; now that she has turned her hand to the telling of a fantasy tale,… — Elizabeth Haydon Copy Share Image
“There’s something deep in the heart of every person that wants to protect culture. The only thing about my pending career that… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
“Do you know why God invented writers? Because he loves a good story. And he doesn't give a damn about the words.… — J.R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can publish a first novel in a kind of lyrical flourish, but it is not really a lyrical form. The… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
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When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
I always try and find new things to think about and address. That really opens you up as a writer. I can… — Rick Springfield Copy Share Image
“Reading exposes is to the experiences and minds of others, makes us challenge our own provinciality, deepens and widens who we are… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I hope you enjoy reading my book as much as I didn’t enjoy writing it. Just kidding! I hope you don’t enjoy… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
i keep drinking the ink from my pen and i'm balancing history books up on my head but it all boils down… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of… — Josef Skvorecky Copy Share Image
“I love writing, but I would be able to love it more if that love wasn’t motivated by fear of homelessness.” — Jenny Trout Copy Share Image
“Fiction gives us a reach into the lives of individuals that would otherwise be but a closed door. If we are gifted… — James D. Maxon Copy Share Image
“Every time you read a book your mind touches that of the person who wrote it – even if they died a… — Amanda Craig Copy Share Image
All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you find that one book, that one that makes you tingle. It's almost like you found a little piece of magic.” — Carmela Dutra Copy Share Image
“You have to regain control of the authorship of your life and realize that no one else is going to write the… — Nate Green Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was really a writer until I read it in the New York Times. And then I thought, "Oh… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
If you really want a prize, or if you really want applause, you should try to write as many books as humanly… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate, and infinitely… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Between books, I have to throw out everything I did before, because the tools I've used to write the previous book will… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to… — Mary Archer Copy Share Image
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