My mother told me that at the age of 6 or 7,1 would walk around reading out loud. I would go through… — James Doohan Copy Share Image
“Academics always feel that they deserve more. (Roberto Bolano) Reading and enjoying fine literature is a highly cultivated and refined activity, whereas… — Kim Leine Copy Share Image
I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really,… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
“I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“How do you write like tomorrow won’t arrive? How do you write like you need it to survive? How do you write… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Slamming the book shut produces a wind on the face, a weather that is copyrighted by the author, and this wind may… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while… — Edwin Muir Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of books in this world. One improves the mind, the other the bank balance. Sometimes they're the same… — Paula Gosling Copy Share Image
My hand is very tired but I want to go on writing. I keep resting and thinking. All day I have been… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
This was an age before e-books. We all knew that the only way you can allow a book to survive in print… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Any time someone doesn't like one on the first run, I hope they will give it another shot. At least we'll get… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
You know, that's kind of the thing, I can't freestyle and I used to always wonder why I couldn't, and when I… — Bubba Sparxxx Copy Share Image
A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
“Writing is like breathing underwater. It's really hard to do unless you can imagine yourself a nice set of gills.” — Alane Adams Copy Share Image
I write in quite a simple way because that's just the way I write. The vocab I use is quite wee. That's… — Limmy Copy Share Image
“Never place your punch at the beginning of a column nor at the end. Sneak it in where it's least expected. Fill… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Anyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers… — Kirby Wright Copy Share Image
I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try… — Joshua Homme Copy Share Image
“The best fantasy writer are the ones that stopped fighting with their inner demons, and started writing about them.” — Solomon Woytowich Copy Share Image
It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that… — Alice Lowe Copy Share Image
Thoth, Hermes, the stylus, the palette, the pen, the quill endure, though our books are a floor of smouldering ash under our… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
“All writers pen sad stories to garner sympathy, writing is after all for the abandoned of the society: the ink-leech, spewing black… — APORVAKALA Copy Share Image
I will read anything at all by Kate Atkinson, Daniel Woodrell, and William Kennedy, who are all fearless. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
Writing becomes a really good creative outlet when you're sitting there and feeling creatively frustrated or stilted, but also you then get… — Zoe Lister-Jones Copy Share Image
Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to… — A. E. van Vogt Copy Share Image
When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
