I always sympathize with people who complain about the length of my books. It would take me a year to get through… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I like to write with people I have a relationship with; otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you… — Miranda Lambert Copy Share Image
“When you are writing, you do not need to be as good as Poe, Shakespeare or Rowling. You need to be as… — Giuseppe Bianco Copy Share Image
Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its… — Dick Francis Copy Share Image
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
Mainly, I try not to think about my readers as I write - I just think of my characters and myself -… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
If I had the luxury of working as a full time writer, I think you would see novels appearing on a much… — John Scott Copy Share Image
“By then, [1737]...the French were taking advantage of the new "reading rooms" created by architects such as Blondel and of new seat… — Joan DeJean Copy Share Image
A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it.… — Rikki Ducornet Copy Share Image
“Each life lived eventually became a book. How a single letter becomes a word, becomes a sentence, becomes a paragraph, before finally… — Betta Ferrendelli Copy Share Image
“Hemingway has his classic moment in "The Sun Also Rises" when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt. All he can… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
People who spend their working hours in a lab or research library or a classroom might be intent primarily on keeping or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
I'd never been a tract writer; I'd never been a philosopher; I'd never taken part in extraordinary industrial dispute activism; I'd not… — David Lange Copy Share Image
“When I think back on all the refugee camps I visited, all over the world, the people always asked for the same… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was, too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.” — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Any writer knows that what's left out is as essential, if not more so, than what's there. Unlearning works that way. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
“Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one” — Jo Linsdell Copy Share Image
When you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Reading is an activity that not only expands the mind but also enhances the soul and cultivates ones character.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Through all this other stuff I was doing, I always went back to the writing, and it was writing that made me… — Dannah Gresh Copy Share Image
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
To write a good story there are four things that every author needs: 1. A beginning 2. A middle 3. An ending… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I go to Barnes & Noble with the sole intention of moving all copies of the bible to the fiction section. — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think writers should have writer's block. I think they should write. Imagine you were a bus driver and you said,… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
I like to write from a slightly sad or complicated place. But with a sense of hope and happiness at the same… — Eliot Sumner Copy Share Image
Once you start writing something obsessively, it's almost like someone has to rip it from your hands in order for you to… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
“I was never without a book, just in case there were empty moments to slip into a life that wasn't mine.” — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off. — William Styron Copy Share Image
“Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I didn't like shooting part, because I was more of a writer and didn't like being the center… — Hannes Holm Copy Share Image
The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks. — Roy Bedichek Copy Share Image
The book that meant most to me was 'The Wind in the Willows.' It sounds ridiculous, but that was my vision of… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
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