I was drawn to painting and filmmaking because I was interested in communicating visually, which spills over into my tendencies as a… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer, and my mother was like, 'No, why don't you become a lawyer?' That sort of thing. — Tom King Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to decide whether it's worth turning the page, or whether it's time to close the book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
There are a lot of bottlenecks to getting published. Publishers are only one of them. Having the time is another one. Feeling… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand;… — Brooks Adams Copy Share Image
We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Actually the contents of these books mattered little. What did matter was what they first felt when they went into the library,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Even in my profession how little the art of reading has been studied! how little a clear manner, and good delivery, have… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence. What was… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
I've had lots of people saying very nice things about the work. But I genuinely feel in the course of a writing… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
What advice do you have for writers working on their first novels?If you feel called to write a book, consider it a… — Kathleen Grissom Copy Share Image
“literary fiction is fiction that examines the character of the people involved in the story, and that popular fiction is driven by… — Bret Lott Copy Share Image
“[Books] were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually in became too lonely or harsh or… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
It's funny, particularly when you're a writer and you're doing well, you have that sense of like, "Oh! My view of the… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read. — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
What's difficult to do in books for children is to create funny incidents. Funny images, funny language and any kind of taboo-breaking… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“Once she'd thought all the knowledge in the world was contained in the princess academy's thirteen books. Now she faced thousands. She… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Like many writers, I'm usually more interested in reading about authors than their actual works. We're more curious to know how they… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
“Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to [the words of the wise]. Of making many books there is no end,… — Ecclesiastes 12:12 Copy Share Image
I didn't really start writing about the church in earnest until the mid-2000s, so I wasn't present for or a participant in… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“...when you're a writer, you become deeper and more uniquely distinct, the more you go inside yourself...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
When I was little, I loved books that gave me lots of detail so that I felt like I could be transported… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Ooo,” said Alexia, fascinated, “it shrinks back down again. The books didn't detail that occurrence.” The earl laughed. “You must show me… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
A library is the only single place you can go to learn something new, be comforted, terrified, thrilled, saddened, overjoyed, or excited… — Amy Neftzger Copy Share Image
While some of the big publishers might give out 200,000 advances, if your book does not hit some of the lists in… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
“Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it moves people's hearts… — Ian Leslie Copy Share Image
I love storytelling so for me to get behind a story and get in there early in its infancy and kind of… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry. — William Collins Copy Share Image
Most writers have very little that's important or valuable to offer; most of them are just repeating each other. — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so… — Fan Bingbing Copy Share Image
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