A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
You have to be true to your instinctive way of writing. You have to find your identity. — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living. — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
“I find novels compose my mind. Do you read novels too? - Reverend Finch's wife” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
The books that have helped me most are the ones I reacted to, not just read — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation. — D. T. Max Copy Share Image
“If you're a writer, the problem is that, when you try to call a halt to thinking about your novel-in-progress, your imagination… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Fiction comes in all shapes and sizes. Secrets,lies,stories. We all tell them. Sometimes,because we hope to entertain. Sometimes,because we need to distract.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
One of my favorite rules of writing: stop whenever it's feeling really good so you have something to look forward to the… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
“The less he sees of other writers the more of a writer he will ultimately become. When he sees scarcely anyone except… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“In the days when I didn't know people were reading and judging me, I wrote serenely, as if eating bliny; now I… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.” — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“[about a book lent by a crush] Last night I read into the wee small hours. Fell asleep with my face in… — Bob Condron Copy Share Image
And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Books for me were what the ocean is to the fearless explorer-deep and mysterious, boundless and soothing. I loved the smell of… — Steve Pemberton Copy Share Image
“Books, he thought, were a sort of migratory bird. Here they rested a while, weary of their travels, before taking flight again,… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic yearning for the lost pleasure… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“I am a writer. I have been a writer my whole life. Words are the only things I have ever believed in.… — Rachel Sandene Copy Share Image
“If you don’t put 99 percent of yourself into the writing, there will be no publishing career. There’s the writer and there’s… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what? — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing. — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library. — Paula Spencer Copy Share Image
I write not because I'm free but because everyday I find some time for myself¦ — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading. — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
“Writing may be masturbatory, but God forbid it should be an act off autocannibalism.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
![“[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently place, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string.” quote by H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/699/h-g-wells-1122_altars_a-novel-by-henry-james-is-like-a-church_158550.png)
![“[about a book lent by a crush] Last night I read into the wee small hours. Fell asleep with my face in the book, my nose pressed up against the print. Could smell Sean on the pages, the lingering odours from his sportsbag. Man scent, liniment, damp earth.” quote by Bob Condron](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/841/bob-condron-223768_book_about-a-book-lent-by-a-crush-last-night_2448147.jpg)
