Sound judgment is the ground of writing well. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Copy Share Image
“Let's try the library,' I tell him. 'We can find out anything there!” — David McPhail Copy Share Image
You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“Writing is a love & hate relationship. You'll love the job, you'll hate the work.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how you live and die, it's how the bards wrote it down. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything. — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Books don't need to be published," Lars Högström said. "The main thing is that they should be written.” — Torgny Lindgren Copy Share Image
As a writer, you have to be mean and vicious. Use the pen as your gun. Sometimes the people you write about… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Writing works when publications are writing and serving the best interest of their users; numbers are good yardstick but not a way… — Om Malik Copy Share Image
I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
You know that something is really well written when you have to think so little about the words that are coming out… — Tom Weston-Jones Copy Share Image
I think a novelist must be more tender with living or 'real' people. The moral imperative of having been entrusted with their… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
My broad sense of this is that authors like Smil really paint the clear picture, and once you see that, it's kind… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When I write, I have a sort of secret kinship of readers in all countries who don't know each other but each… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“For some reason the neatly ordered and abandoned books make me feel sad. Tired. I wish Cassia were with me. She'd turn… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“We are thus led to ask what the writer looks for and how he trains himself to look for it. The answer… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“All across America public libraries were, and are, being shut down, while prisons-with libraries-were, and are, being built. This has been a… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
“CRUEL HARVEST by Fran Elizabeth Grubb is a compelling, riveting, unforgetable memoir that will keep you turning the pages. Published by Thomas… — Fran Elizabeth Grubb Copy Share Image
One of the reasons we invented continuous prose was to lay out an argument, piling points on top of each other, weighing… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“a good book "never steals hours away from you; it always helps make the hours feel like they were spent doing something… — E.J. Copperman Copy Share Image
