“As it turns out, business writing is all about getting to the point and leaving out all of the noise. You think… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“Let the pleasure of doodling led us to writing as decoration rather than to the peculiarly abstract sort of representation it inclines… — Robert Kaplan Copy Share Image
“I'm just not in a writing mood, but I keep going. What if the garbage man were not in a garbage mood?… — JeanNicole Rivers Copy Share Image
“the best known authors of children's books of our times. See flap of this wrapper for complete list of titles. GROSSET &… — Arthur Scott Bailey Copy Share Image
Sometimes I pick up a book and I say: Well, so you've written it first, have you? Good for you. O.K., then… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Nearly every politician plagiarizes their speeches, because nearly every politician has a speech writer do the work for them. — Ana Kasparian Copy Share Image
My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Among the many worlds which man did not receive as a gift of nature, but which he created with his own mind,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Indeed, as a system of exchange based on a highly codified feeling that is continually reproduced and circulated even as it cannot… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
“No, give me the past. It doesn’t change; it’s all there in black and white, and you can get to know about… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“When I read a book, I try my best, not always successfully, to let the wall crumble just a bit, the barricade… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity,… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling terror, as I contemplate the drivel on the… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Because a boy who could read would sooner or later come upon some book that would give him an idea, and a… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction… We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little… — David Ulin Copy Share Image
The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home . . .: reading by the fireside. . . . Listening to music. — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
“If people knew how powerful books were, they’d all have one in their hand or a tablet loaded full of e-books, just… — Terry Schott Copy Share Image
“If you turned in a paper with writing on it, you were guaranteed a hook from Jake Epping of the LHS English… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids'… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The story goes that I first had the idea for The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“I write because one word can change your entire life, then again, why so serious? often times I write for entertainment or… — DeJuan Cuffee Copy Share Image
If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“My new story collection won’t please everyone, nor was it meant to. Then again, not everybody lives in my world. If they… — Ted Gargiulo Copy Share Image
“The reading rooms were large and quiet. Their windows were filmed in dust and desiccated insects, and seemed to age the light… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
I've been writing books without ego for a very long time. I feel like it will get what it deserves. Or won't… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write. But honestly I'm glad I didn't do it back when I was twenty-five or so, when it's… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy. — Steve Fossett Copy Share Image
“She took to reading with a fervor so extreme, Baba Joseph had to take the books from her hands by force. 'Your… — Nancy Farmer Copy Share Image
I think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Reading sends you on one adventure after the other. It's a way to escape from the world, and comfort you at all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
