I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist. — William Trevor Copy Share Image
The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I can't write a book like 'Lamb' or 'Fool' every year. It just takes too much research and craft. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete...you feel as if you could do anything.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“But to her, libraries were like hotels: secret villages inhabited by passing strangers from a thousand different worlds brought together just for… — Simon Montefiore Copy Share Image
“Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living.” — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another bag… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
There are some things that are more appropriate to a children's than an adult book but there's a huge overlapping area and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately. — Laila Robins Copy Share Image
Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes. — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
When we want a book exactly like the one we just finished reading, what we really want is to recreate that pleasurable… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
“Majina ya vitabu yanapaswa kuchaguliwa kwa mantiki na kwa makini ya hali ya juu mno, kwa sababu ni miongoni mwa vitu vya… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
I am fully intelligent only when I write. I have a certain amount of small-change intelligence, which I carry round with me… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story,… — William Kent Krueger Copy Share Image
Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I'm always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asleep. I… — John Waters Copy Share Image
As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will… — E. B. White Copy Share Image