Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“...do you like to write?" "No. No writer really likes to write. I like to make love and drink wine. At my… — Rubem Fonseca Copy Share Image
“Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to be a writer can afford to indulge in it.” — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
I would describe myself as a writer that hopes to take you into my world and help you feel a little safer. — John Waters Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing in a lot of different styles, so I pushed to find that vicious place, or that vulnerable place, and… — Mikky Ekko Copy Share Image
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Over the years, I developed a theory about why writers are such procrastinators: We were too good in English class. This sounds… — Megan McArdle Copy Share Image
You Do Not Know Is in You— an Inexhaustible Fountain of Ideas. Another reason for writing a diary is to discover that… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
One of the first things my father taught me was that the library was made for and available to me. It's a… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
“Writing was the solution to every problem—financial, emotional, intellectual. It had kept me company when I was a lonely child. It gave… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
I have a great amount of confidence and faith in my abilities to write. There are other areas of my life where… — James Frey Copy Share Image
“I keep collecting books I know I'll never, never read; My wife and daughter tell me so, And yet I never heed.… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to… — James Frey Copy Share Image
I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
And if you're gonna be a writer, you just truly have to be a writer. You have to throw yourself into it… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I like editing. Generally, you work under the assumption that everything can be shorter. I like to see if I can reconstruct… — Sheldon Harnick Copy Share Image
“A book can be so much more .one has his one picture in the head. When you read its your own lmagnition… — Kjell Copy Share Image
It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Writing for television is completely different from movie scriptwriting. A movie is all about the director's vision, but television is a writer's… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
“It's old-school to write by hand, but Jess likes the way the words blossom under her fingertips [. . .] These scribblings… — C.B. Lee Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I'm guessing the stress of having to write for a deadline can be inspiring. Sometimes, pressure is good. — Timothy Dalton Copy Share Image
I really hope that all librarians aren't like Gladys Morgan. Because I'd really like , at some point, to walk into a… — Patrick Carman Copy Share Image
“Kindle is a revolutionary reading device, and we're excited that you have joined the millions of people around the world who read… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the… — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
You need to know a little about a lot to write a book. The amount of research that goes into it- it's… — James Murray Copy Share Image
When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“If you cannot buy yourself a coat, buy yourself a book, latter your book will buy you a coat. Knowledge is only… — Osunsakin Adewale Copy Share Image
In the study of management, unfortunately, many writers have been so anxious to articulate a theory in the form of, "If you… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
“anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
'The Crimson Petal and the White' is a book, and it will win or lose the trust of each reader when they… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
I always like to write myself into a corner. I think the best stuff comes from only having a few ways out. — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
“But Rosine had read books . . . so many books ... Her over-excited memory was filling her mind with terrifying images… — Maurice Renard Copy Share Image
“The fiction writer is the ombudsman who argues our humble, dubious case in the halls of eternal record.” — John Updike Copy Share Image
Wait a minute, words in the prompter, script on my desk, vending machine upstairs out of Funyuns... the writers are back! — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
When I start to write something, I suppose I want it to change me, to make me into something not myself. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
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