“Come with me,' Mom says. To the library. Books and summertime go together.” — Lisa Schroeder Copy Share Image
We, the authors, want people to buy books. That is the only way we can earn - from our royality. — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
It isn't that inspiration doesn't exist, but it comes only with writing. — John Braine Copy Share Image
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982. — J. A. Jance Copy Share Image
To try to write better than you do now is to risk rejection and failure. But not to risk those things in… — LouAnne Johnson Copy Share Image
“Nor did I forget what is the natural pleasure of every man who has been a reader;… filling the shelves of a… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I have lots of fiction in the drawer, but the essays I mostly kick out into the world, ready or not. Fiction… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one… — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
Wouldn't that be wonderful if I could do that? And that way, I could walk with the muse, rather than walk without… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I often get asked how I write so much. As any writer knows, the answer is to write a lot more than… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
“Where do you think my new novel is? In the waste basket. I can see myself that it's no good on earth,… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
“We know this type of person well from literature, probably because so many writers are sensitive introverts themselves. He “had gone through… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
If one of my kids reads a book for school and I can have a conversation with her about the book and… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The movement for women's liberation was about an emotional transformation, an explosion, a feeling all over the country that things must be… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
“PUBLISH YOUR BOOK TODAY The following is a direct quote from Amazon, and, if you are a real writer, it is one… — Terry Kennedy Copy Share Image
“And I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books. I think the ideal… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
