It was always a pleasure to write. I can never think of a time when I just hacked something out to fulfil… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say,… — John Glover Copy Share Image
“I love to read books. I love to read anything really, even the back of the cereal box. But there is nothing… — Rachel Wojnarowski Copy Share Image
I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV. — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
Books, like all art, breed in us desire. In times of crisis and fear and misrepresentation we need desire, or else we… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“For those who are afflicted with book lust, those for whom reading is more than information or escape, the road to our… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
I believe a good writer can write a good book with any sort of character, in any sort of setting, but I… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
I was in my senior year of high school when I read 'Notes From Underground' by Dostoyevsky, and it was an exhilarating… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“If only my mother had a book to hold, she wouldn't have looked so lonely. And maybe this was another reason why… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“I would never attempt to dissuade anyone from reading a book. But please, if you're reading something that's killing you, put it… — Nick Hornby (Author Copy Share Image
“i live on my books. on my writings, i live on my royalties: the percentage an author recieves on each sold copy.… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
“Helen's books were her friends, "the kind you invite for dinner in the middle of winter," she'd told him, " and spend… — Emma Clayton Copy Share Image
I try to transmit emotion and soul in my voice, but my true passion has always been writing. I feel more like… — Romeo Santos Copy Share Image
“What do you want to write? What gets your goat? What irks you to no length? If you could change the world… — Lori Lesko Copy Share Image
“I think part of why I have so many books around me and why I read every day is because I mythologize… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
When you write, don't say, "I'm going to write a poem." That attitude will freeze you right away. Sit down with the… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
“...each person is required to ask, 'what is my authority?' - on what do you base your decisions? if it's yourself, then… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“I believe that to be an efficient writer, one must be able to write in more than one language. I know over… — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once… — Garth Ennis Copy Share Image
Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“Books nurtured, guided and comforted me as a child. Books were my substitute parents and teachers, when the adults in my life… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire'… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
I don't suppose that I know more about life than anyone of my age, but it seems to me that, in the… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there's a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living. — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
Writers who do crap work believe they have turned in spun gold and all their little darlings must be defended. — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
I try to make sure that, when I'm writing, I don't put too much Cody in it. But I don't want to… — Cody Johnson Copy Share Image
And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“All good writing is persuasive writing; persuading the reader to buy what you're selling, to side with you, to believe the tales… — Ramsey Isler Copy Share Image
Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead… — Bruce Coville Copy Share Image
