If you want to learn a thing, read that. If you want to know a thing, write that; if you want to… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“Make no mistake about it, Clot: I'm a real writer. I don't have the least intention of being happy, naturally.” — Rafael Reig Copy Share Image
I wrote 'The Art of the Deal' and numerous other books. Some were number one best-sellers. I guess 'The Art of the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“When you can sit down and produce a four-hundred-page manuscript that can transport a reader somewhere else for a spell, maybe I’ll… — Wendy Wax Copy Share Image
Detroit, my 'great' subject, made me the person I am, consequently the writer I am - for better or worse. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Distractions have never prevented a Writing Writer Who Writes from writing; distractions are an excuse proffered by Non-Writing Non-Writers Who are Not-Writing… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
Sartre said that wars were acts and that, with literature, you could produce changes in history. Now, I don't think literature doesn't… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
I write abundantly. And then my next step is to struggle to reduce the ornament, to reduce the abundance-to prune the book,… — James Wright Copy Share Image
There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
“Although it’s not just plants and animals that die out, so do books. Quite often, I’m sorry to say. I’m sure you… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined to go off… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Cynthia had been on friendly terms with an eccentric librarian called Porlock who in the last years of his dusty life had… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Any responsible essayist or memoir writer who's writing about herself is not just saying, 'Here's what happened,' and opening up her diary.… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
“See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.” — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
“One of the best cures for a reluctant reader, after all, is a tale they cannot stop themselves from reading.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Reading keeps me sane. Growing up, it was my scape, my alternative; it provided both rebellion and peace. — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
Traditional publishers require an author to submit a manuscript six months in advance, and if pressed, no later than two or three. — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
“Female readers, on the other hand, were unmoved by the book, one of them going so far as to give it the… — Deborah Copaken Kogan Copy Share Image
If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
“Write it down. Whatever it is, write it down. Chip in into marble. Type it into Microsoft Word. Spell it out in… — Adair Lara Copy Share Image
BEAUTIFUL is stark, disquieting and, quite simply, riveting. Amy Reed is an author to keep on your radar. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
'An Obedient Father' is perhaps the novel that, some might say, Arundhati Roy had wanted to write when she wrote 'The God… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x… — Will Self Copy Share Image
A dream of mine is to become an executive producer and writer. I would love if that ended up happening to me… — Cierra Ramirez Copy Share Image
I don't like the expression "writer's block" because I think it presupposes that you have a problem with your plumbing. I really… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“Start with a word. A word leads to a sentence, which leads to a paragraph, which leads to a chapter, which leads… — Mark Pettinger Copy Share Image
The funny thing is that in Bosnia there are no words that are equivalent to fiction and nonfiction. From the storytelling point… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“F**k them is what I say. I hate those ebooks. They can not be the future. They may well be. I will… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
