Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own. — Joanna Kerns Copy Share Image
A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. — P. J. Harvey Copy Share Image
I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“Helen makes a mental note to pick up a self help book the next time she was out. This was getting ridiculous.” — Solange nicole Copy Share Image
“It’s the ‘everyday’ experiences we encounter along the journey to who we wanna be that will define who we are when we… — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
Though I carry enough electronics to get nervous in a lightning storm, I love paper and I always have a Moleskine journal… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
“In books there were limitless worlds, there was truth, sometimes brutal and ugly, and sometimes happy and soothing.” — Héctor Tobar Copy Share Image
When I'm fishing, I feel guilty that I'm not writing, and when I'm writing, I feel guilty that I'm not fishing. But… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
I dreamed of becoming a writer. And this dream is about to become a reality with the publication of my first, and… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
You know, writing isn't easy. It's tedious. Ideas have a gestation period, and after a while, it becomes difficult. — Rajiv Menon Copy Share Image
The best part of being a writer for me is immersing myself in a fictional world, which is the opposite of being… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
My dad had this outlook: It doesn't matter what I want to read - reading was a good thing. So whatever I… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
It never failed—I'd buy a new journal, write like a madwoman for ten pages, then lose total interest in the process. Three… — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
The feel of them (books) and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin's cave for me. Entire worlds and… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
I graduated from college December of 2017 and looking ahead and thinking about potentially starting a book, I just kept getting hung… — Kyle Carpenter Copy Share Image
“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or, as it were, fondle them—peer into them, let them fall… — William R. Manchester Copy Share Image
“From then on, Matilda would visit the library only once a week in order to take out new books and return the… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller, I'm not a literary writer, and I don't want to be a literary writer. People say to me, "Oh,… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
