The patron gets comfortable in bed and opens up the book -- it opens tentatively -- and the patron bends the open book backward until there is a satisfying crack and the book is a little more supple, a little easier to read. The book spine has just b...
Raymond: That's my pen. That's definitely my book. Charlie: Well taking your book is not a serious injury! Raymond: Serious injury book is a red book, that book is blue. Charlie: Well forgive me, I've lost my secret decoder ring!
People share books they love. They want to spread to friends and family the goodness that they felt when reading the book or the ideas they found in the pages. In sharing a loved book, a reader is trying to share the same excitement, pleasure, chills...
We should be told: Write fast, write close to the bone, write for ten hours straight until you’re not thinking in words anymore, but in colors, in smells, in waves of memory. Right what you care about. Don’t write one more word you don’t care a...
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.
If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.
Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.
You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write.
I write because I can't imagine not writing.
Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.
Good writing is good writing, but that doesn't mean you can't orchestrate it or tweak it.
A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.
I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that.
I write short stories. I write every day.
What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
The thing I want to write most is the next thing I write.
I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.
Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.
Remember if you write, write, write, you can never be wrong."---Stephanie Skeem Author of Flotsam
Currently, the Library of Congress houses eighteen million books. American publishers add another two hundred thousand titles to this stack each year. This means that at the current publishing rate, ten million new books will be added in the next fif...
He had in his Bronx apartment a lodger less learned than himself, and much fiercer in piety. One day when we were studying the laws of repentance together, the lodger burst from his room. "What!" he said. "The atheists guzzles his whiskey and eats po...
