“That night I didn’t say anything. I just watched you leave and in the end, I just stayed sleeping awake. Somewhere between… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The day it comes out, there's already things that you start to go, 'Oh, I should have done that a little differently.'… — Howie Day Copy Share Image
“The Snow Leopard’s Tale is mesmeric. Tom McIntyre has compressed so many things into so few pages that I can think of… — John Barsness Copy Share Image
When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. Then, especially with the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
With Amaryllis in Blueberry, Christina Meldrum has woven a beautifully layered, intensely emotional story, with unforgettable characters whose voices will remain with… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or… — Barbara Park Copy Share Image
“This leads me to the Higher Editing. Take of well-ground Indian Ink as much as suffices and a camel-hair brush proportionate to… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I don't keep a diary or a journal. Sometimes I'll send emails to friends and that's a way of recording what I… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
Growing up, my parents managed to show me the importance of reading without cramming it down my throat. A difficult task, I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't have a whole bunch of literary connections. I don't write reviews or attend writer's conferences. I'm kind of shy and… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“The biggest gift a writer could have is to have someone with the writing expertise and experience of John Grisham brought to… — Tony Vanderwarker Copy Share Image
“I'm not a big fan of inspiration. I'm too old to sit and wait for the muse to give me a little… — Ron Koertge Copy Share Image
Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
There's a lovely character in 'Under Milk Wood' called Mrs. Ogmore Pritchard and she's incredibly tidy and clean. She really is unbearably… — Princess Michael of Kent Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out,… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
“When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. It is the same as the pupil, in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“I hate to think of you stuck here all day every day, doing nothing with that brilliant brain of yours.” “It never… — Tessa Hadley Copy Share Image
“Stories hang from the trees, hive under the coffee table, gather like glass on the corners of the road. To pick them… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
The good part of writing is where it gets out of your control and turns into something else. You look at it… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
“Do you know why people are reading more books now than ever before? Because the terrific catastrophe of the war has made… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“I think you’re more an archivist than a librarian,” he said. He told me that archivists and librarians were opposite personas. True… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
You never know what you're going to end up with when you sit down to write something. At the end, if it… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
A book is a human-powered film projector (complete with feature film) that advances at a speed fully customized to the viewer's mood… — John Maeda Copy Share Image
Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. I… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
“fiction has enabled us not merely to imagine things, but to do so collectively. We can weave common myths such as the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Writing is a bit like swimming. You learn writing by doing it and you learn swimming by doing it. Nobody learns how… — Robert Munsch Copy Share Image
I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
“I was thinking: to write and being a writer are two kind of diferrences things. To write is a please. Being a… — Desi Puspitasari Copy Share Image
A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket,… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
“I don't know why we stopped reading together, but gradually we were not doing it regularly, and then without realizing it was… — Sam Savage Copy Share Image
I love meeting booksellers and readers and hearing how they've read and received my stories. Often I'm surprised by which characters they've… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Your spouse, a sibling, a friend need to read your drafts. They have to be people unafraid to tell you what sucks.… — Douglas Brunt Copy Share Image
