I never really have blank page syndrome. I don't get blocked. I have a plan for my novel before I start which,… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
I have a lot of books optioned. This one sat around for a while - part of that was just because I… — James Franco Copy Share Image
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“A writer has to strain to make the reader recover the process in the words 'human being'; we talk about 'a being'… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
As a writer I have always fought for the right to write. For writing is a time-honored means of communication. Lack of… — Piri Thomas Copy Share Image
“Ladles and Jellyspoons, all rise for...ʻTRIUMPHʼ. And by Jupiter what a triumph it is! ... For yet again the unfeasibly huge, nay… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: 'The Alpha Strategy' and the 'Omega Strategy'; 'Asia Rising' and… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
I just can't imagine my life without Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov. I can spin off of that and talk about Crime… — Gordon T. Smith Copy Share Image
Each story, good and bad, short or long-from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness-they… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Unlike most readers in Antiquity who read their books aloud, we have developed the convention of reading silently. This lets us read… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
“When he wasn't too sick to sit up, Roosevelt sought comfort and distraction in the world that he knew best: his library.… — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
The copies of The Catcher In The Rye or To Kill A Mockingbird that I own look like they were printed yesterday,… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Every single day, authors read at bookstores and libraries - and coffeeshops and bars - all over the country. And these readings… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I have really been fortunate, incredibly privileged, to have done so much editorial work, and I would love to do more. But… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Don't let the covers fool you. Books, like lives, are wiggling, evolving, living things. They're not bound by pages or authors or… — Kelly G. Wilson Copy Share Image
Writing 'Men We Reaped' broke me in different ways at different spots in the drafting process. The first draft was hard because… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
I myself discovered many authors through school reading lists and through school anthologies. The positives are: young readers can find the world… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Now I belong to this fantastic group called The London Writers Salon, which runs Monday to Friday with sessions in London, New… — Lesley Sharp Copy Share Image
As a writer, I find it a literal impossibility to disengage from whatever the location might be, given how everything that eventually… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
“And the non-reading of books, you will object, should be characteristic of all collectors? This is news to me, you may say.… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“… if necessary, the books shall be divided as follows: you get the odd, I get the even pages; "the books" are… — Vera Pavlova Copy Share Image
“She'd opened the front cover and fallen inside the wonderful, frightening, magical illustrations. She'd wondered what it must feel like to escape… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Now you may have gotten the impression that there are absolutely no uses for Librarians. I'm sorry if I implied that. Librarians… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Turning the pages of this encoded codex, I realize that the books I love most are like open cities, with all sorts… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write… — Patrick Duffy Copy Share Image
“There is a deeper, more profound reason for this craving for acceptance and glory. Put simply, it's because all writers are fat… — Chancery Stone Copy Share Image
There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
By the way of connecting with subject, with theme, I was able to find a kind of lifeline. Writing's like a lifeline.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Books had been invented to salve human loneliness, and they were friends without peer, friends who never sneered or flinched or laughed… — Mary Jo Putney Copy Share Image
I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an… — J.A. Konrath Copy Share Image
“A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are equally opened to him.… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing -- to present my unhappy reader… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
