“We read Books to Learn, Earn our Living above all to live wisely and Creative Never forget good books are Long term… — Dr.T.V.Rao MD Copy Share Image
My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.” — Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst Copy Share Image
I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work. — James Purdy Copy Share Image
“Reading, for pleasure and knowledge, has always been, will always be one of my favorite things to do. (Larry Brown: A Writer's… — Larry Brown Copy Share Image
“To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. So, the best… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
As a writer, I've always been the sum total of my influences, and those are all over the spectrum: Rachmaninov, the Who,… — Eric Carmen Copy Share Image
Being blocked, being uncertain, sitting there not knowing, waiting, abiding with it: this is the work. If you don't have the tolerance… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
“And I love being a writer because I want to leave something here on earth to make it better, prettier, stronger. I… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
“…these books have their own integrity, their own identity. It is not about the words in there. You don’t need to read… — Stevan V. Nikolic Copy Share Image
I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. I think this is very… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“If I behave like a good boy and take my Prozac...then I won't be able to write anymore. I'll have Writer's block… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
It's important to read because it's really good for your vocabulary. It's really good for your imagination. I enjoy reading because I… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
I would love to see writing taught online because at university like Yale, there are not enough teachers who are able to… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I wrote from the time I was four. It was my way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream. I wrote like… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
If you ask people if they enjoy crime novels, they'll say, 'Oh, my guilty pleasure is...' then name a really brilliant crime… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
Also "Catcher in the Rye", which happens to be one of my favorite books, I just found that kind of useful. It… — Freddie Highmore Copy Share Image
When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I suggest that you become a writer to reduce the cumbersomeness of talking to many people individually, but with books you can… — Nicholas Hawkins Copy Share Image
Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“She hadn't met Earth or Fire, the other two cousins, but she'd filled a couple of library requests for each of them… — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
“I loved my mom because she read the entire Harry Potter series out loud to me, and when we were finished, she… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing. — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
“Authors only write what their characters tell them. Which mean we are scribes, and the characters are the author.” — Anna-Cosette Copy Share Image
Respect the language in which you write. Be kind, develop good vocabulary, and be creative in writing beautiful sentences. Your prose should… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes. — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week… — David Gest Copy Share Image
The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have come to realize that no matter how satisfying fiction is, it becomes that much better when it… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
