“To know your way round a library is to master the whole of culture, i.e. the whole world.” — Sophie Divry Copy Share Image
“Society places the writer so far beyond the pale that society does not regard the writer at all.” — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
In some ways, certain books are more powerful by far than any battle. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Every writer secretly hopes that what he or she has written will endure. — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“Some people are fond of horses, others of wild animals; in my case, I have been possessed since childhood by a prodigious… — Julian the Apostate Copy Share Image
BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book. — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
When revising, consider whether you have written anything that will hurt or offend a member of your immediate family. If the answer… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
I write because I'm in love with language; because I like working for myself, inside my head; and because it's the only… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Most writer's blocks come from people second-guessing to the point where they get discouraged, and they just quit. For me, if I… — Poo Bear Copy Share Image
“This is not to say a writer has only one voice or is limited to the scope of her backyard. But in… — George Ella Lyon Copy Share Image
“Don't be afraid to write and share your story with the reading world! Find your courage! It is a fact that some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People ask me when I start one of these projects, what is your theme? I havent the faintest idea. Thats why youre… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
People meet writers and are bowled over when the writer is friendly to them and invites them to his house for a… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I said on the phone to my mother, “I think I’m going to write the story of the Burgess kids.” “It’s a… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
