“I promise you a case of writing paralysis if you think about too many of these tools when you sit down to… — Roy Peter Clark Copy Share Image
A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
In TV, writers generally are the show runners, and they have enormous control over everything. In feature films, very often the writer… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare… — David Hume Copy Share Image
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its… — Avi Copy Share Image
I always swore I would never write a book. But I read Clare Balding's and it was really interesting and so prettily… — Jennifer Saunders Copy Share Image
I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I go through stages with all kinds of stuff. There'll be a couple of months where I'm reading, you know, like, fiction… — Syd Copy Share Image
I write pretty fast, probably faster than most people. But I might think about something for six hours, then write it in… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
People often ask how I can reject the phrase 'woman writer' and not reject the phrase 'Jewish writer' - a preposterous question.… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a… — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
It's normally in the morning, just playing around. And I'm not saying everything I make is great, but that's what I do.… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
“Do you know the best thing about broken hearts?' the librarian asked. I shook my head. 'They can only really break once.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or… — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical? — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four… — Gail Tsukiyama Copy Share Image
It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
I write very tightly, and my big fear is boring people. I want them to read quickly, stopped in their tracks. I… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“He had loved the library, and had felt, as a boy, as though it had a kind of sentience, and perhaps loved… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I've learned you can't write on a computer on a bus. It jiggles too much, especially an Apple. The keyboard jiggles around… — Stephen Stills Copy Share Image
“And it's time you learnd there's a big difference between your writing and your life. To do it right, your witing takes… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
I was quite a weird kid because I didn't like getting presents. I don't know why. I just went for books all… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
“Hicks was examining the paperbacks Maura had culled from the shelves: Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Joe Hill.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I got on a Dostoyevsky kick right after college. I started with 'Crime and Punishment,' went on to 'The Possessed' and then… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
In Liverpool, where I live, we have a brilliant library which has been refurbished, and I like going there. — Shaun Evans Copy Share Image
He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me." — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Us na kaha ya tara sara roona maray leya he to ta ……...jan…… aakhir wo jan he gaya mari muhabat k sheedat… — Anab Rafiq Copy Share Image
“You write because the brain is an endless wilderness whose roughest terrain can only be traveled with a pencil.” — Durs Grünbein Copy Share Image
I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
