Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things. — Carly Rae Jepsen Copy Share Image
I was focused as a writer and marketing and a character. I was like Jim Carrey. — Enzo Amore Copy Share Image
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
When I first started writing in the beginning, it was very much surrounding the idea of escape and of fantasy, then when… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The soul that feeds on books alone - I count that soul exceeding small That lives alone by book and creed, -… — Joaquin Miller Copy Share Image
I always tell people, I never get writer's block because it's coming straight from my brain, like, real-life experiences. I'm like the… — Dave East Copy Share Image
What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Writing the first draft of a new story is incredibly difficult for me. I will happily do revisions, because once I can… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
Writing has nothing to do with publishing. Nothing. People get totally confused about that. You write because you have to - you… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They… — Barbara W Tuchman Copy Share Image
I feel, holding books, accommodating their weight and breathing their dust, an abiding love. I trust them, in a way that I… — Lori Lansens Copy Share Image
The secret to writing sound effects is having a room you can be alone in, trying to make the sounds yourself, and… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
“There are a couple of utterly important rules to writing anything, whether it's a novel, a short story or a collection of… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
You cannot overestimate the role of intuition in fiction writing. Or the role of accident or randomness. These things are very central.… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
