I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy. — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“The best way for children to learn grammar is by making them habitual readers.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
“You will learn more about writing from one hour of reading than you will in six hours of writing.” — John McAleer Copy Share Image
“...I want to read what you're thinking. I'm pretty sure it's not about housekeeping.” — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map. — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a… — Warren Adler Copy Share Image
“Nobody knows why another Latin American writer, Mario Llosa Vargas, one day punched Marquez in the face.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life has No Second Edition To Correct it Later.It has Only One Edition ,Which Should Be The Best.' So, Try To Be… — Ritu Copy Share Image
“READ. You have no business wanting to be a writer unless you are a reader. You should read fantasies and essays, biographies… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Life is like a novel and everyday is a new page. So if a page is sad next will be happy. So… — Aldyna Threesya Copy Share Image
I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one's… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
It's physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I remember from my academic days, there were people who could never begin writing because they hadn't read every single thing on… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
That's the difference between a real journal and one that's invented for a novel. A novel journal has to be manipulated so… — Cris Mazza Copy Share Image
“With head bent over that first book, my imagination filled in the details between the lines. Or maybe the lines blurred the… — Ginny L. Yttrup Copy Share Image
As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
