Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Oddly, the anti-heroes of both 'The Chill' and veteran comics writer Peter Milligan's 'The Bronx Kill' share a first name, though their… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
When I am so intensely involved with writing my books, I don't like to reread them. I feel like that story is… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I loved reading Roald Dahl when I was young but I had forgotten a lot about the books. I read the 'BFG'… — Frank Lampard Copy Share Image
“Reading is awesome. Just escaping into someone else's life, into another world. In books, everything is possible.” — Nick Lake Copy Share Image
“His intense devotion to reviewing contributed greatly to the expansion of his own research library. “A nice side-benefit is that the copies… — Hammann Konrad Copy Share Image
I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams… — Jennine Capó Crucet Copy Share Image
I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
The only writers who have any peace are the ones who don't write. And there are some like that. They wallow in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all… — John Bright Copy Share Image
“The Hurt Artist is a riveting memoir by Shane Niemeyer that takes us on a raw, unedited life journey that includes the… — Jason Peter Copy Share Image
Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write.… — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
“I am often asked by editors, fans, friends about what I read or which authors influence my writing. My answer seems surprising… — Soar Soaring-Words.com Copy Share Image
Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke… — Ted Solotaroff Copy Share Image
Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way.… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
I think it's very important for someone going to buy a book, taking a class or listening to a lecturer to ask,… — Echo Bodine Copy Share Image
With 'Nostromo', Joseph Conrad said that he had wanted to write a novel about the degradation of an idea. That's what we… — David Milch Copy Share Image
Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I'm from a family of educators. I grew up with books in my house and in my hands and my parents in… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me. — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the… — William Sansom Copy Share Image
“Reading is a way of disciplining our minds, and it is also one of the most efficient means of mental escape.” — Andrew Piper Copy Share Image
“The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“To stop us reading forbidden books they will have to burn every manuscript. But to stop us thinking forbidden thoughts they will… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Each book starts from ashes really. I don't feel that I have this to say or that to say or this story… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Why one goes on writing when one sees what writing can be - and what one's own writing is not. Aldous Huxley” — Nicholas Murray Copy Share Image
“See, that's the beauty of books. We get to take what we want out of them and it can be different for… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“If a person reads a good book—they become permanently changed. They can’t even help it. They can’t unlearn what they’ve learned. It… — Loretta Lost Copy Share Image
Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I often write two books simultaneously. Usually one of them starts out as a fun experiment designed to give me a daily… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“If the ink of my writing morphed into ants, would they march along with my thoughts? Would they find my work as… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me. — David E. Kelley Copy Share Image
Of all the excellent copyedits I've received over the years, Marie-Lynn Hammond's was by far the best. Her work on Half Blood… — Esi Edugyan Copy Share Image
