The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic,… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm too busy and worried to experience the delight while composing my own work, although, of course, I hope… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“Twas a cold Yuletide evening, and I wandered the stacks, shelving multiple titles that the patrons brought back. We toiled overtime at… — David Davis Copy Share Image
“Books," he said, "are like mushrooms. They grow when you are not looking. Books increase by rule of compound interest: one interest… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
“Sighing, she headed back to work. She braced herself to lift the heavy lid of yet another trunk. The sight inside curled… — Catherine LaRoche Copy Share Image
“All I wanted to do was go back inside to the library and read a book.I used to spend all my time… — Kathryn Magendie Copy Share Image
“The wonderful thing about books--and the thing that made them such a refuge for the islanders during the Occupation--is that they take… — Annie Barrows Copy Share Image
“It's a terrible mistake to let the perfect get in the way of the good. If you wait to publish until you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'll have mine [The Book-Lovers' Anthology] till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I'm leaving it… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
Writers are great lovers. They fall in love with other writers. That's how they learn to write. They take on a writer,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The paradox of reading is that the path toward ourselves passes through books, but that this must remain a passage. It is… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
Writing is a black-box proposition. You see actors; you can see what they're doing. You can watch the director on set doing… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
“I was driven less by achievement than by trying to understand, in earnest: What makes human life meaningful? I still felt literature… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Writing is a solitary job--that is, no one can help you with it, bu there's nothing lonely about it. I have always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Persistence is worth at least as much as talent. The writing life is not a series of gentle encouragements. It's more like… — Gardner Dozois Copy Share Image
I had a love affair with books, with characters and their words. Books kept me company. When the voices of the book… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Books give us pleasure not because they make us comfortable, though some good ones may, but because they entertain us, they make… — William McPherson Copy Share Image
When I get into the moment of actually feeling like I want to write, to finish something, I do what I've always… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
“Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it. Ignore the authors… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever… — Plato Copy Share Image
To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front… — Kate Baldwin Copy Share Image
He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I think it's hard to make a living as a writer, but I think it's hard to work at McDonald's too… I… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
Helpful to me over the years was some of Ernest Hemingway's writing, for example A Farewell to Arms. You have characters who… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
“Life gives us struggles first and reward later. And as a writer my life's purpose is to write and tell stories. Some… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
You're always hoping you can attract a bigger audience, but at the same time, I'd hate to give up what I write.… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
“Cultures are like books, the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss once remarked, each a volume in the great library of humankind. In the sixteenth… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
“What I am really writing about, what I have always written about, is the idea of human freedom, human community, the real… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Depending on where I am in the process, sometimes I have a page count and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I have an… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
It's always difficult to write honestly of one's deepest feelings, particularly without the protective veil of fiction. But the more difficult, the… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
“Maybe you have already been writing, but never considered a book before. What you have contributed to websites, discussion groups, blogs and… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek Copy Share Image
I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
I was writing 'Outlander' for practise and didn't want anyone to know I was doing it. So I couldn't very well announce… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“I know it’s highly unusual for people to get this excited over books. But if you’re a reader, you get me .… — Belle Aurora Copy Share Image
I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it.… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
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