Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work. — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
Donald Westlake's lean prose and deadpan delivery are engaging, as always. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In middle school I wrote a paper on Hemingway and none of the sentences had more than five words. — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history. — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
So March: Book One was the first book I ever wrote. And it was the most terrifying process I've ever been through. — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“No one looks too closely at a librarian. People are afraid of going blind from the glare of ssss -ssso much compressed… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“As a general rule, highly rational writers (like Nabokov) write most comfortably in the morning, and mainly intuitive writers write most comfortably… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.” — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
it is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“Her ticket to freedom lay in her lap. Ever an avid reader, Annie had escaped into books in recent months, when all… — Barbara Delinsky Copy Share Image
“When people ask me how I write, I always answer, “Out loud.” It’s the single most important piece of advice I give… — Jeffrey Robinson Copy Share Image
I see this with experienced writers, too: They worry so much about the plot that they lose sight of the characters. They… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
Write every day. Don't kill yourself. I think a lot of people think, 'I have to write a chapter a day' and… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men--you may make some… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
