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AS GOOD AS IT GETS Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES![]()
I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON![]()
When I want to read a novel, I write one.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI![]()
When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first nove...
IRVINE WELSH In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON![]()
I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more exci...
JOHNNY CASH One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if st...
MARTHA CAREY THOMAS Would you want you as a friend?
PETER STROPLE It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a...
ANUJ SOMANY Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm...
SUPERNA BATHEJA I don't write as much as I did back when I was writing songs every day, ... But when current events ...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from ...
RUTH OZEKI I get most of my ideas while lying in bed in the dark. When ideas strikes me, I turn on my flashligh...
LORRIN L. LEE One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read &...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH![]()
The novel can be read simply as a story which you can skip if you want. It can be read as a story yo...
MALCOLM LOWRY When I get a paper cut, I accept it as a small gesture of justice for the tree.
SAMUEL H. LOWE Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I ...
NATALIE MORALES![]()
When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some oth...
ORHAN PAMUK![]()
I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was tryi...
MITCH HEDBERG![]()
When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but i...
RICK RIORDAN I can write ten or twelve screenplays in the time it takes me to write one novel. This allows me to ...
BENJAMIN PERCY The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a long...
JOHN BURNSIDE![]()
... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far t...
DEYTH BANGER![]()
I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does...
JOHN IRVING![]()
I don't regard it as a historical novel, I regard it as a novel of now, which just happens to be set...
JULIAN BARNES Your brain is capable of juggling lots of facts and possibilities at the same time when you let it w...
AP DIJKSTERHUIS What I found was when I started my first study, and then in subsequent studies, is here you have peo...
ROBERT JAY LIFTON![]()
I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape record...
PAUL TAYLOR As a coach you try to be creative, but when you see something from a coach, a legend, you take a nap...
LARRY FINUCANE![]()
When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a seri...
ANTHONY BURGESS Just as I could tell you about my first Andre Norton novel or my first L'Engle or my first Asimo...
PAMELA DEAN There comes a moment in your life when you realize that no matter how hard you try, you're never goi...
KIM GRUENENFELDER![]()
When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible....
ERNEST HEMINGWAY![]()
I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything jus...
JAY-Z As a person, when I was seven or eight, my dad would try very hard to tutor me through school becaus...
DICHEN LACHMAN Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like ...
BOHUMIL HRABAL![]()
You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
ADRIENNE RICH Something happens between a novel and its reader which is similar to the process of developing photo...
PATRICK MODIANO![]()
I'm sure my unique brain tastes the same as a normal brain. Actually, mine might be slightly tastier...
J. CORNELL MICHEL My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN![]()
I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so...
JOYCE CAROL OATES![]()
He preferred the term "study" to "office," as an office meant work. No way around it. In a study, yo...
NORA ROBERTS![]()
When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I bre...
CARL HIAASEN![]()
I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be inte...
FRANCOIS MAURIAC![]()
I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reform...
VIKRAM SETH In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine...
ALISON WEIR![]()
If you write something down on paper, it becomes an actual goal. Before you write it down, it's ...
SUMMER SANDERS![]()
A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a ...
AUGUST WILSON![]()
My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught ...
VIK MUNIZ Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.
KRISTIN CAST![]()
Or, my scrofulous French novel / On grey paper with blunt type! / Simply glance at it, you grovel / ...
ROBERT BROWNING Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the pape...
BUDDY EBSEN As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was ...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I&#...
O. R. MELLING![]()
Some day I shall write a novel and call it 'A Walking Tour in the Congo' or 'Thrills and...
LOUIS MACNEICE History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.
TOMICHAN MATHEIKAL When I'm writing a novel, one of the things I do is get big poster boards. They're actually ...
ALEXI ZENTNER![]()
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
STANLEY KUBRICK I'm not an angry person. When I write, the lawyer in me tries to make it as easy to read as poss...
JOE SCARBOROUGH As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy u...
ERIC WEINER![]()
I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or...
DONALD MILLER I'm as apolitical as possible. I don't hang out with too many people. I'm a loner. For the most part...
ERIC BISCHOFF![]()
Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
YANNI If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my o...
AUBREY PLAZA Writing with kids is an adventure. It seems like someone always has the flu or pink-eye. I mean, you...
CLAIRE MESSUD![]()
I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassette...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot o...
RUTH OZEKI![]()
The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a chara...
MARTIN AMIS As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I co...
MICHAEL CHABON When I was on the swim team as a kid, I used to hide out from my coach by going into the bathroom an...
JEFF KINNEY![]()
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As I walked, my mind was busy fi...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long...
SHERMAN ALEXIE![]()
I remember the absolute joy I used to get out of writing. The purity of imagining something and then...
LIANE MORIARTY![]()
People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that havi...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM![]()
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are sho...
LYNN ABBEY I am Mother Nature. All of creation bows before me. When people leave their cities and learn of me�...
SETH ADAM SMITH I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, ...
ANDY MURRAY With each book, you get better as a writer. There is no back door to the industry. Read in the genre...
MICHELLE MORAN Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain's working differ...
DENISE MINA I sleep with the lights on, a pen and a paper to write on
SOTONYE ANGA![]()
I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel i...
KARL MARLANTES![]()
Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless i...
JANE SMILEY![]()
When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours...
SIDNEY SHELDON![]()
I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't r...
STEPHEN KING I just freestyle. I don't actually write the words on paper. It's just whatever comes into m...
TORY LANEZ![]()
Illiteracy is the innability of a person to learn. It is not all about the innability to read or wri...
PAUL BAMIKOLE![]()
It's true: theatre has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I always liked everyt...
HATTIE MORAHAN![]()
As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in...
KATE BERNHEIMER My brain puts baths in the same category as yoga: it'd be 'nice' to relax for an hour, b...
EMILY WEISS As a result of my life on the road and the increasing number of rainy afternoons in cinemas, I began...
JEREMY LLOYD Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n...
BRET ELLIS![]()
Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n...
BRET EASTON ELLIS Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN![]()
Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my...
CARL HIAASEN![]()
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us...
MICHAEL LEBOEUF As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a ...
LAURA AMY SCHLITZ![]()
When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle bet...
TED DEKKER
AS GOOD AS IT GETS Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES
I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come... ALEKSANDAR HEMON
When I want to read a novel, I write one. BENJAMIN DISRAELI
When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first nove... IRVINE WELSH In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON
I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more exci... JOHNNY CASH One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if st...
MARTHA CAREY THOMAS Would you want you as a friend?
PETER STROPLE It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a...
ANUJ SOMANY Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm...
SUPERNA BATHEJA I don't write as much as I did back when I was writing songs every day, ... But when current events ...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from ...
RUTH OZEKI I get most of my ideas while lying in bed in the dark. When ideas strikes me, I turn on my flashligh...
LORRIN L. LEE One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read &...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH
The novel can be read simply as a story which you can skip if you want. It can be read as a story yo... MALCOLM LOWRY When I get a paper cut, I accept it as a small gesture of justice for the tree.
SAMUEL H. LOWE Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I ...
NATALIE MORALES
When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some oth... ORHAN PAMUK
I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was tryi... MITCH HEDBERG
When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but i... RICK RIORDAN I can write ten or twelve screenplays in the time it takes me to write one novel. This allows me to ...
BENJAMIN PERCY The poem builds in my mind and sits there, as if in a register, until the poem, or a piece of a long...
JOHN BURNSIDE
... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far t... DEYTH BANGER
I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does... JOHN IRVING
I don't regard it as a historical novel, I regard it as a novel of now, which just happens to be set... JULIAN BARNES Your brain is capable of juggling lots of facts and possibilities at the same time when you let it w...
AP DIJKSTERHUIS What I found was when I started my first study, and then in subsequent studies, is here you have peo...
ROBERT JAY LIFTON
I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape record... PAUL TAYLOR As a coach you try to be creative, but when you see something from a coach, a legend, you take a nap...
LARRY FINUCANE
When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a seri... ANTHONY BURGESS Just as I could tell you about my first Andre Norton novel or my first L'Engle or my first Asimo...
PAMELA DEAN There comes a moment in your life when you realize that no matter how hard you try, you're never goi...
KIM GRUENENFELDER
When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible.... ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything jus... JAY-Z As a person, when I was seven or eight, my dad would try very hard to tutor me through school becaus...
DICHEN LACHMAN Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like ...
BOHUMIL HRABAL
You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it. ADRIENNE RICH Something happens between a novel and its reader which is similar to the process of developing photo...
PATRICK MODIANO
I'm sure my unique brain tastes the same as a normal brain. Actually, mine might be slightly tastier... J. CORNELL MICHEL My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so... JOYCE CAROL OATES
He preferred the term "study" to "office," as an office meant work. No way around it. In a study, yo... NORA ROBERTS
When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I bre... CARL HIAASEN
I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be inte... FRANCOIS MAURIAC
I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reform... VIKRAM SETH In 1965, when I was fourteen, I read my first adult novel; it was a historical novel about Katherine...
ALISON WEIR
If you write something down on paper, it becomes an actual goal. Before you write it down, it's ... SUMMER SANDERS
A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a ... AUGUST WILSON
My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught ... VIK MUNIZ Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.
KRISTIN CAST
Or, my scrofulous French novel / On grey paper with blunt type! / Simply glance at it, you grovel / ... ROBERT BROWNING Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the pape...
BUDDY EBSEN As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was ...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I&#...
O. R. MELLING
Some day I shall write a novel and call it 'A Walking Tour in the Congo' or 'Thrills and... LOUIS MACNEICE History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.
TOMICHAN MATHEIKAL When I'm writing a novel, one of the things I do is get big poster boards. They're actually ...
ALEXI ZENTNER
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper. STANLEY KUBRICK I'm not an angry person. When I write, the lawyer in me tries to make it as easy to read as poss...
JOE SCARBOROUGH As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy u...
ERIC WEINER
I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or... DONALD MILLER I'm as apolitical as possible. I don't hang out with too many people. I'm a loner. For the most part...
ERIC BISCHOFF
Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing. YANNI If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my o...
AUBREY PLAZA Writing with kids is an adventure. It seems like someone always has the flu or pink-eye. I mean, you...
CLAIRE MESSUD
I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassette... ELIZABETH WURTZEL When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot o...
RUTH OZEKI
The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a chara... MARTIN AMIS As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I co...
MICHAEL CHABON When I was on the swim team as a kid, I used to hide out from my coach by going into the bathroom an...
JEFF KINNEY
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As I walked, my mind was busy fi... ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long...
SHERMAN ALEXIE
I remember the absolute joy I used to get out of writing. The purity of imagining something and then... LIANE MORIARTY
People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that havi... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are sho... LYNN ABBEY I am Mother Nature. All of creation bows before me. When people leave their cities and learn of me�...
SETH ADAM SMITH I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, ...
ANDY MURRAY With each book, you get better as a writer. There is no back door to the industry. Read in the genre...
MICHELLE MORAN Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain's working differ...
DENISE MINA I sleep with the lights on, a pen and a paper to write on
SOTONYE ANGA
I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel i... KARL MARLANTES
Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless i... JANE SMILEY
When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours... SIDNEY SHELDON
I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't r... STEPHEN KING I just freestyle. I don't actually write the words on paper. It's just whatever comes into m...
TORY LANEZ
Illiteracy is the innability of a person to learn. It is not all about the innability to read or wri... PAUL BAMIKOLE
It's true: theatre has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I always liked everyt... HATTIE MORAHAN
As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in... KATE BERNHEIMER My brain puts baths in the same category as yoga: it'd be 'nice' to relax for an hour, b...
EMILY WEISS As a result of my life on the road and the increasing number of rainy afternoons in cinemas, I began...
JEREMY LLOYD Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n...
BRET ELLIS
Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n... BRET EASTON ELLIS Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my... CARL HIAASEN
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us... MICHAEL LEBOEUF As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a ...
LAURA AMY SCHLITZ
When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle bet... TED DEKKER
