There's something very self-conscious about a writer who's addressing his reader. Don't do that. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
“The struggling poet and writer dreams again of standing on stage and reading his lines once again...” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I came from a practical family. The idea of being a writer seemed impossible to me. — Crystal Hana Kim Copy Share Image
When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you. — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh, 'Pandaemonium', by Chris Brookmyre! Just fabulous - such a layered, beautifully structured, engaging, intelligent book. I love all Chris's stuff, but… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
“When we knowingly write in ways that we would not want others to write to us, we abrade the trust that sustains… — Joseph M. Williams Copy Share Image
“Can I possibly be a good writer if I'm not healed form the story I'm telling? Will I be able to go… — Lori Lesko Copy Share Image
Publishing in a way doesn't have a lot to do with writing, and writing doesn't have a lot to do with publishing. — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
We've been moving around so much that I have a Tupperware container full of my books. Some people have a blanky; I've… — Hilarie Burton Copy Share Image
“That's the pleasure and challenge of reading great novels; you get to see yourself as others see you and you get to… — John Green Copy Share Image
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Life is very difficult. There's nothing to be ashamed of by reading self-help books. If you're stuck in a dark place it… — Jim Dooley Copy Share Image
Books bend space and time. One reason the owners of those aforesaid little rambling, poky secondhand bookshops always seem slightly unearthly is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic,… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
“Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve — hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve —… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I have written - often several times - every word I have ever published.” — Vladimir Nabok Copy Share Image
“Those who believe everything they read probably should refrain from reading.” — Matt Copy Share Image
Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it. — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
“In the pages of a book, you can find the universe within a single heartbeat.” — Umesha Chathurangi Handapangoda Copy Share Image
I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books. — Francois Mitterrand Copy Share Image
Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years. — Hugh Dancy Copy Share Image
Reading allows us to learn, see, do things that we could never have done with our own knowledge. — Eric Thomas Copy Share Image
I don't wake up every day and just write to write. I only write with purpose. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
