To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it. — David Grann Copy Share Image
I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit. — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“A writer is first of all a reader. It is from reading that I derive the standards by which I measure my… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community store, where you walk in,… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
My advice to all new writers - male or female - it isn't easy, but forge ahead and be true to your… — Lucy Simon Copy Share Image
“A librarian can’t live by books alone, and I wouldn’t eat them if I could. Feel too much like cannibalism.” — Mike Mullin Copy Share Image
I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Mistake is a single page of life but relation is a complete book. So dont lose a full book for a single… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
“In Dostoevsky illness and death were almost always dirty, impoverished affairs. Crushed beneath wagon wheels, mud, typhus, blood-stained handkerchiefs. And so on.… — Lindqvist John Ajvide Copy Share Image
Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Also by Jimmy Carter Our Endangered Values Sharing Good Times The Hornet’s Nest The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture Christmas in Plains (illustrated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like to write from midnight to dawn with great stores of candy and Red Bull laid in... I'm not sure why… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
“God, Himself, wrote the 10 into stone with his own finger. He told the epic of mankind, our origins and our future,… — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
“Never walk over a writer, I said to myself, unless you're positive he can't rise up behind you. If you're going to… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“loved coming here. It always felt so…safe. I was allowed to read any book I wanted. No one interrupted me, or if… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
