A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I write books to influence people I will never meet. Books increase my audience and my message. — Les Parrott Copy Share Image
In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone. — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the book, once the heart is opened and it has learnt to read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're very lucky it'll break your heart.” — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, you pull your life into your work. My first love is cinema. That's where I want to be… — Roger Avary Copy Share Image
“Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It’s a way to find healing, and to healing others.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
you once said to would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen in that case I could not write at… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“I want to assure you with all earnestness, that no writing is a waste of time, – no creative work where the… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I have a very big apartment in Paris but you can't really move around there anymore; piles of books everywhere. I don't… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
A form wherein we can enjoy simultaneously what is best in both the novel and the short story form. My plan was… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Books can be viewed as food for the mind Stop reading and your brain can become anemic Read junk and your thinking… — Jonathan Frakes Copy Share Image
“Burnout for librarians seems to me both foolish and unnecessary. . . . Work hard, work well, work effectively. Work until quitting… — Herbert S. White Copy Share Image
I don't know why I write. The honest answer is that I don't have an answer. I wouldn't die if I couldn't… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because there's no need… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
