I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“My books nourish my soul. When I open a cover and begin to read, I go to new places, to worlds I… — Ann Hite Copy Share Image
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths,… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
What I really value about being a writer is that I can go to rehearsal when I want to, and then, when… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
The reason you write something that is exciting and visceral is to force people to hear what you have to say, especially… — Daveed Diggs Copy Share Image
“Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When my younger son was 13 years old, he asked me to read 'Swallows and Amazons' to him while he made models.… — Michelle Magorian Copy Share Image
“Your writing can be chosen by one publisher and hated by all readers, or it can be rejected by one publisher and… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“BETH READ THROUGH the report on her computer screen three times. This was something her father had taught her. Read through once… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“Go to them. Tell them, ‘I am a writer and this is my story.’ How will you know if your work is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The big advantage of a book is that it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning. — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation,… — Peter York Copy Share Image
It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“She wildly burned for the one she loved and he stood there watching, hoping he too would catch a blaze from the… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Having a sense of fun in books is a huge, huge deal, because a lot of times kids - even me when… — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
“I am so obsessed with my life that the books I used to read are resting in the bookshelf for years and… — Neymat Khan Copy Share Image
I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
That's the great thing about being a writer. You dream up amazing questions... and then dream up even more amazing answers. — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I should say, I don't write about myself or my life. So for me, in fiction, it's always been about what I… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
If there's anything weirder than an introverted writer going to lots of social functions, it's an introverted writer being converted into an… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I… — Arnold Lobel Copy Share Image
Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage. — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
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