“Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
It is an interesting process to revisit a previously essayed role and hit new notes and dimensions. — Arjun Mathur Copy Share Image
Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else. — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“Your don't have to burn books to destroy culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.” — Marc Levy Copy Share Image
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The more I want a book to be done, the faster I type because I just want to get it out. — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean.… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their… — Jamie L. Harding Copy Share Image
There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
When I write now, I pretend I'm holding hands with the old me. I try to make sense of all those questions… — Meg Medina Copy Share Image
“If ten eyewitnesses are asked to describe a suspect, you'll get ten different variations. The same applies to readers and their opinions… — Shawnda Currie Copy Share Image
“It was a bookstore, and he felt at home in bookstores, and he hadn’t had that feeling much lately. He was going… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“We write to heighten our own awareness of life. We write to lure and enchant and console others. We write to serenade… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“A lot of aspiring writers are actually very talented and just have to continue polishing their craft till opportunity knocks. All writers… — Myne Whitman Copy Share Image
The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“More than a building that houses books and data, the library has always been a window to a larger world--a place where… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
