Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.' — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“Good books should be an overwhelming assault upon the personality.” — Steffan Piper Copy Share Image
The different books I read till now seems to look Total waste, When I put my first step in Real Life.ª — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I've ever been really good at. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen. — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
There will be birthdays in the next twelve months; books keep well; they're easy to wrap: buy those books now. Buy replacements… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
“You can read as many books as you like, but if you don't adapt what you ready, you will never get there” — Alexander Novicov Copy Share Image
Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of… — Bob Hartley Copy Share Image
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
I had never written anything. And I had never studied writing. So my motives were pure: I had a great story... a… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something,… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
When I started 'City of Bones,' I knew exactly what was going to happen in 'City of Glass.' When I first started… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Though books were potentially harmful, novels were all the more dangerous. The path of fiction could easily mislead you into the cosmos… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Green goo bubbles in a cauldron in the center of all this chaos. On a pedestal in front of it, a book… — Rita Webb Copy Share Image
If you would like to write better than everybody else, you have to want to write better than everybody else. You must… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
The fact is that writing, like any creative undertaking, carries with it both pain and great joy. The pain is often inherent… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
It used to be with chocolate. I would put chocolate in my studio and say, "You know, Nat, there's this chocolate you… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
In truth, my Anglophilia is fundamentally bookish: I yearn for one of those country house libraries, lined on three walls with mahogany… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“And you’re not the standard insecure nymph hunting for Faulkner you’ll never finish, never start; Faulkner that will harden and calcify, if… — Caroline Kepnes Copy Share Image
I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
