“Reading exposes is to the experiences and minds of others, makes us challenge our own provinciality, deepens and widens who we are… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
I always try and find new things to think about and address. That really opens you up as a writer. I can… — Rick Springfield Copy Share Image
Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it. Eeyore — Eeyore Copy Share Image
Exploring the thought process through visual journaling is essential in a world that is in continuous change. — Michael Bell Copy Share Image
A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Between books, I have to throw out everything I did before, because the tools I've used to write the previous book will… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
You can just start writing, but you're gonna go off on 10 or 12 starts and weird tangents, and yeah you'll have… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
When I'm editing my work, I'm looking for everything to fit, to feel seamless, for every detail or line of dialogue or… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Writers are always outsiders and probably ought to be, since only outsiders see things clearly: the people who publish them, or make… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, "Read," but a writer… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“He likes to know things. He checks out book and record collections when he visits people, looks in medicine cabinets, takes inventory… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
With surgical insight, Inside Madeline delves into the most complex female territory imaginable and dissects until every honest bone is revealed. Bomer's… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
But, you know, I just did a big trip in the spring to Vietnam and Cambodia and Thailand, and that's when I… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If you really want a prize, or if you really want applause, you should try to write as many books as humanly… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate, and infinitely… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was really a writer until I read it in the New York Times. And then I thought, "Oh… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“You have to regain control of the authorship of your life and realize that no one else is going to write the… — Nate Green Copy Share Image
All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you find that one book, that one that makes you tingle. It's almost like you found a little piece of magic.” — Carmela Dutra Copy Share Image
“Every time you read a book your mind touches that of the person who wrote it – even if they died a… — Amanda Craig Copy Share Image
Nobody can swashbuckle a quick-witted riposte like Emma Thompson. She's a writer, a real writer, and she has a relish for the… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing… — Charles Van Doren Copy Share Image
If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I feel very much a part of what I'm writing about, and I'm writing about things that concern me on a daily… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
When you write a roman a clef, there is a tendency on the part of the reader to wonder how much of… — Dave Itzkoff Copy Share Image
Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
