The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it. — Earl King Copy Share Image
Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world. — Mattie Stepanek Copy Share Image
Ultimately why I do what I do is to allow the story to affect change in people in some way. — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“One habit: choosing a book and starting each day with a dedicated time of reading and gazing, becoming an apprentice to a… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“Life is like a good book... some chapters engaging, some funny, some sad and some challenging...However, its all left to the design… — Nirmala Kasinathan Copy Share Image
[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
I love those stretches where I've just been a writer - when I haven't been doing Internet start-ups - where I pretty… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
This condition [irony] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“I can relate to the novelist Carrie Brown...who described herself as being 'a promiscuous reader.' I'll give almost any book a chance… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
'Dreams from My Father' was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work… — David Garrow Copy Share Image
“When she thinks a book is very good, what she says to herself is: yes, that's how things are. I hadn't thought… — Ellen Douglas Copy Share Image
I don't finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them,… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Any alphabet book for children where 'P is for Patti' Smith and 'X is for the women whose names we don't know'… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
“It seems as if I can only thing if I write my journal, it just connects the part of my head that… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
“For twenty years I have sat alone at a desk tinkering with sentences and then sending them out, and for most of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“The other option was to go to the public library. Few people came back from a visit to the library. There was… — Joseph Fink Copy Share Image
When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
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