I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting. — Saul Kripke Copy Share Image
The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am quite a slow writer. I can only work under pressure; I wait until the last minute. — James Hunter Copy Share Image
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. — Moliere Copy Share Image
It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly. — C. J. Cherryh Copy Share Image
“You can choose what you write but you can't choose what you make live.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful,… — John Lescroart Copy Share Image
It's the feeling of being lifted out of my life into another world that is the thrill of writing fiction. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles. — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
“I pulled out my Kindle and started reading to clear my mind, and get lost in other thoughts other than my own.” — Meghan Quinn Copy Share Image
Few children learn to read books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful world of the written word; Someone… — Orville Prescott Copy Share Image
The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full stop, beyond its internal… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“One of the most brilliant Russian writers of the twentieth century, Yevgeny Zamyatin belongs to the tradition in Russian literature represented by… — Mirra Ginsburg Copy Share Image
“I found the world of the Little House books to be so much less confusing, not just because it was "simpler," as… — Wendy McClure Copy Share Image
I always dread the process of writing because I'm not a writer. I'm an audible guy, I'm a verbal guy. I love… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Everybody reading the same book at the same time pulls people together. It does start a conversation. If you're going to read… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I have let half-decades elapse between books because books have to be writte and writing is awful, but if you are the… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“The room was as big as the Duke of Pardloe's library and had at least as many books, and yet the feeling… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Putting out a book is absolutely a lesson in vulnerability because it doesn't matter how much of an audience you have. Some… — Luvvie Ajayi Copy Share Image
“One reads to tickle and amuse one’s mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I had to learn, as Balzac did, that one must write volumes before signing ones own name.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush. — Robin Ince Copy Share Image
“Do what you will, this life's a fiction, And it is made up of contradiction.” — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Because all books ARE the Book of Job -- man in the crucible like Jack in the Box…” — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
You have to live life if you're going to create believable lives on paper. — Donna Jo Napoli Copy Share Image
Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments. — Annie Barrows Copy Share Image
