When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Writing 'Fast Life' has been an incredible experience. It's something totally different from what I am used to. — Joe Jonas Copy Share Image
That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
I don't think I began to be a professional writer until I learned my weaknesses and what I couldn't do. This forced… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again. — Patricia Duncker Copy Share Image
So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I… — Zara Cox Copy Share Image
I'm Aries and I have heard a lot about it, but I don't know if it's the truth. But it's always entertaining… — Jackson Wang Copy Share Image
Paymasters come in only two sizes: one sort shows you where the book says that you can't have what you've got coming… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“We will speak for the books." ... "Like the Lorax?" "The Lorax speaks for the trees," I remind her. "Books are made… — Paul Acampora Copy Share Image
“The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The basic thing is to be humble, and pretend you're a bartender in the tavern of life. Don't get too comfortable and… — James McBride Copy Share Image
“There were others, such as Jack London,who offered their readers such a respite from the miserable horror of existence that their books… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
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If the White House could do more to tell parents that getting children reading is their business too, we'd see a big… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
My favorite books have a personality and complexion as distinctly drawn as if the author's portrait were framed into the paragraphs and… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The novel is very much alive, indeed. In Toronto at the Sixth Annual International Festival of Authors (October 1985) I listened to… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I think it's more helpful to keep your books sort of a singular focus. Get it said, get it said well, fascinate… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that's important in the process of… — Mitski Copy Share Image
I want my writing to reach people. I don't write for a market. I write from my heart, something that appeals to… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
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A writer can be identified just through his sigh, as a mouthful of words are flooded out in his single sigh. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
But I've got a plan. Why don't you be the artist And make me out of clay. Why don't you be the… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
I think the writer is always the creator, because he's starting with nothing, but the actor comes in and gives flesh and… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
And the books you write. They're not you. They're not me sitting here, this Henry Miller. They belong to someone else. It's… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Public libraries are critical learning centers for New Mexicans that bring communities together, especially in our rural regions that depend on library… — Ben Ray Lujan Copy Share Image
I don't want to write the thing that I am a consumer of when I'm unconscious. I want to write the thing… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Insomuch as the structure of this book parallels that of my own mind, it boasts about as much order and linearity as… — Melody Moezzi Copy Share Image
Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“[Writing is] about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life as well. It's about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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