“writing crystallizes thinking and distills meaning, and bridges the gap between the conscious and the unconscious.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I was 35 when I started taking classes at Ohio University. After I got my degree, I kept working at the mill.… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“Every book title becomes infinitely better if 'in your pants' or 'from your pants' is added to the title.” — John Green Copy Share Image
For a while I never show anybody what I'm writing, and during that time I need the feeling that publishing is only… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
“I consider my work optimistic in that the people, during the period I’m writing about them, are experiencing intense emotion. It is… — Don Carpenter Copy Share Image
The initial spark usually has something to do with panic -- I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
“THE MANY FACES OF SURVIVAL Sunday, August 10th at 2:00 PST Dachau Liberator, medical whistle-blower, award winning writer, college professor and world… — Judy Gregerson Copy Share Image
“King Arthur's Knights had been the first book Arthur had read late at night under the covers with a torch...it was he… — Charlie Lovett Copy Share Image
“Writing is about allowing yourself to become a vessel of creativity. Writers are avatars of creation. We have tender hearts, and strong… — Sai Marie Johnson Copy Share Image
“Fictions exist because of this fact. Because we have only one life, and our desires and fantasies demand a thousand lives. Because… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Write and rewrite until you fall in love with what you have created. Your final draft should move you and make you… — Pol Bard Copy Share Image
I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“By applying their observational abilities along with full appliance of their logic and creative powers, writers attempt to create mental maps to… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Its protagonists were lonely and Williams explores their past and present lives in the kind of tedious detail that could only appeal… — Stewart Home Copy Share Image
As a child, my mother would read to me late into the night. I didn't enjoy it at the time but she… — Sam Gyimah Copy Share Image
If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Many a night I woke to the murmer of paper and knew (Dad) was up, sitting in the kitchen with frayed King… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
I think kids are incredibly savvy readers. I think we should give them all the credit in the world. They want to… — Alan Gratz Copy Share Image
“I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“To be able to turn at will, in a book of your own, to those passages which count for you, is to… — John Livingston Lowes Copy Share Image
I am just always, always paying attention - waiting for the words, or image, or name that will be the beginning of… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
I don't think too much about the audience when I'm writing... I'm aware that 'Holes' was read by kids as young as… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
'The Indian Runner' was easy. It had been incubating in me for eight years, and by the time I sat down to… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word? — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Jocelyn recognized reading as a sacred pastime and usually wouldn't interrupt Clary in the middle of a book, even to yell at… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint. — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery. — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Everybody should write a book whether you get it published or not because the experience of sort of taking it all and… — Gary Dell'Abate Copy Share Image
Each reader projects their own version of the experience inside their skull as they go along. It's probably true that no two… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
On the whole, anything that gets you writing and keeps you writing is a good thing. Anything that stops you writing is… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
These 'mistakes' occur in my books for a reason. I have an agenda: I'm secretly trying to inspire kids to create their… — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
