The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“You know your book is good when you have to put it down just so you can breathe.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
I am a disciplined person. When I am writing, I write for 7-8 hours. — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
The secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components, — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to write about a nanny, but it was difficult for me to find a narrative rhythm. — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of writers that can get away with not being gifted with words. — Evanna Lynch Copy Share Image
“I love books. I really, really love them. There's something special about bringing people and books together” — Margaret Truman Copy Share Image
Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
There are many stories I've wanted to write that I'm simply not able to - sometimes I haven't found the way in… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I'm a writer, not an actor. I want to write rather than perform. I'm looking forward to disappearing for a while. — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I usually write in my kitchen, which is a large, octagonal room that looks into woods - three big windows look out… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I'm a massive reader. I actually really love to collect antiquarian literature and I love that my job allows me to travel… — Jenna Ortega Copy Share Image
Kids are naturally inventive and curious and creative, but most adults have had that beaten out of them. Writing is a form… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
“Writing and reading allow one consciousness to find and take shelter in another. When the minds of the reader and writer perfectly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would imagine that anyone picking up a book written by me would expect a fast-paced story that requires minimal effort to… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“...he never so much as looks at me. He just sits there reading his old history books, that really gets me. I… — Sophie Divry Copy Share Image
If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Gogol was usually the leading social poet, while Dostoyevsky usually the leading psychological poet. The former is known as the representative of… — Valerian Maykov Copy Share Image
“For there comes a time in the day’s occupations when old Money Writer falls so in love with an idea that he… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“What then? Are we only to buy the books that we read? The question has merely to be thus bluntly put, and… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
