I used to write out of angst. My writing was quite miserable, quite angry, even when it was funny. It was based… — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
In fact, not knowing is a necessary condition of writing for me. I don't know how else to reach something unexpected. I… — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
“Fictional stories were written so that they seemed real, kind of like a well-executed lie. Fiction creates an unreal world that's better… — Hiroshi Ishizaki Copy Share Image
I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“I think literature totally fails when it has an agenda. - From an interview on the podcast Starship Sofa, December 2010.” — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I am so glad I was writing while on my last book tour, which was really meta, but I think a fascinating… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
I completely identify with finding freedom in boundaries. That's why I tend to have more freedom when I write nonfiction over fiction:… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“If you call yourself an "authoress" on your Facebook profile, you suck at life. You are stupid and your children are ugly.… — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
Unless you turn out to be a shining and ballistic genius, then, trust me, if you want to do this then you're… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all… — Jennifer Carpenter Copy Share Image
“But then twitching nervously in the presence of a librarian wasn't an uncommon response—librarians, like ministers of religion, and poets, and people… — Ian Sansom Copy Share Image
One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“I read what I'd written and thought once again: from what violent chasms is my most intimate intimacy nourished, why does it… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“So now books were her only friends. She'd read Lord of the Rings so often she could recite whole scenes by memory.… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
“lives. And some old witch in Bath had a book that you could never stop reading! You just had to wander around… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I think I've had a certain amount of success at making phrases. I'm a good writer. But obviously, I'm incredibly flattered and… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
“The best fiction rises – yes, like a phoenix – out of the ashes of people’s sad, true disasters. We write in… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I dont write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with YOU!” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“Reading stimulates the imagination and a good imagination can change the world in the most splendid of ways.” — Meredith Wood Copy Share Image
“It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
When I'm there, it's pure silence. There are other writers there, too, and I get super competitive. I have this weird fear… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
He said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library. I… — Tommy Cooper Copy Share Image
“You really have a thing for books." When I didn't respond, he closed the the laptop without touching it. "It's cute.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
What really education for achieving the weight of books are required for children should be doubled by weight — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“The condition of your soul will determine the condition of your life. Because it determines how you think, what you feel, and… — Gregory Dickow Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever worry too much about what our target audience is, what we should be releasing. I just write… — Martin Gore Copy Share Image
I guess that my opinion of writing about real people is informed by defenses of Joyce Maynard's memoir, that the experiences were… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
No writing effort is ever wasted. At the very least, it's practice, and a writer never knows when he or she might… — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
Books make great gifts because... [they don't] come in any particular size, so you don't have to be embarrassed if you bought… — Valerie Bertinelli Copy Share Image
“Pro captu lectoris, habent sua fata libelli": "According to the capacity of the reader,books have their destinies." ” — Terentianus Maurus Copy Share Image
Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it. — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
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