George Eliot Quotes

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.

I try to write the kind of books I like to read.

I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch.

I had been writing for the 'Late Show' for about four years when I started writing short stories. I had a blast writing the stories because I was writing in a voice more my own, as opposed to a man's. HBO ended up buying four of them. I think that had a direct impact on my decision to write a book.

I actually enjoy writing longer books because you have even more to get your storytelling teeth into.

I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is to write the book that you would want to read, and hope other people agree.

The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in you. Once you get that out of your way, you can start writing books.

I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.

I also really like to read good books and I don't have enough time to do it. So it's really hard for me to imagine willingly submitting myself to a trilogy of books that I've been told are at the fourth grade reading level which isn't a very nice thing to say but.

No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute detail.

In a weak moment, I have written a book.

There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.

The strength of film is its accessibility and immediacy. But the strength of books is that freedom to really depict anything you want because people are going to be reading it in private. So, I'm always trying to write with the immediacy and the constant motion of film but I'm also trying to write with the complete freedom of subject matter that books have.

Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.

To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.

Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm encouraging anybody who's ever met me, heard me or even seen me, to get in on the action and scribble their own book. You never know, somebody might have a great book in them.

Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage.

Of all things I liked books best.

Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I've been seduced by their labyrinthine logic, which suggests that reason (if not art) rules over a cacophonous arrangement of books.

I love reading epic fantasies and big fat books and so I really wanted to write one. I think you always write what you want to read.

No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.