A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don't control it anymore… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“So you got Phoenix back,” declared Karla, clapping her hands in delight. “That’s lovely.” “I’m more on loan,” I muttered. “Yeah, my… — Joss Stirling Copy Share Image
Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought." — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life,… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye. — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I… — William James Copy Share Image
in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
I've been through the whole western world, and it seems to me that there's more retail floor space devoted to the sale… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“During those days, both the bed and my little rickety table were swimming in notes and scribbled-over manuscripts that I took turns… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
“Sally was on the first floor reading a book, one that she normally wouldn't read, and she felt quite guilty. Twilight. She… — Anjela Myrick Copy Share Image
“To write a book about Mickey Mantle and not to show people who he really was doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. So… — Peter Golenbock Copy Share Image
“Writing is the equivalent to a striptease. You better be comfortable with your body if you're gonna remove your clothes in public… — Kit Yan Copy Share Image
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“Bedtime stories Eventide Rhapsodies Anthologies of Memory Please enter cautiously and feel free to open what is closed” — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
My experiences always influence my writing, but usually only on an emotional level. I have experienced death of a family member and… — Kim Smith Copy Share Image
“If we're genuinely interested in a book we can even bring ourselves to be greatful when others draw our attention to things… — Ian Watt Copy Share Image
I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the chief offense in bad fiction: we sense that characters are being manipulated, forced to do things they would not really do.” — John Gardner Copy Share Image
There are an awful lot of readers who won't pick up a book if they think it's got anything horrific in it,… — Peter James Copy Share Image
I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The only way I seem to be able to keep going while I'm writing is to munch my way through boxes of… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
I love to write. I love it. I mean there's nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what… — David Liss Copy Share Image
People should be cautious how they treat writers, lest their faults become immortalized for the world to see. - D. — D Michael Hardy Copy Share Image
It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book,… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
My novel got published, and I became a paid writer, which was nice, and then it came out, and nobody bought it,… — Tom King Copy Share Image
That's the mark of a great writers' room - they start to look for things to give you that you can really… — Noah Reid Copy Share Image
I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
The two books I've re-read more than any others are Guenter Grass's 'The Tin Drum' and Victor Hugo's 'Notre-Dame de Paris'. — Paul Kaye Copy Share Image
These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I think sometimes I tap into other people. I sometimes write about other things that I see or just different situations. — Susan Tedeschi Copy Share Image
Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Everything I write, I read out loud. It has to sound a certain way. It has to look a certain way on… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first… — Bruce Boxleitner Copy Share Image
It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre--the novel designed on purpose to… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
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