Read every sentence you write out loud. If it sounds boring, kill it. — James Altucher Copy Share Image
As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write. I'm gonna write the way I wanna write! — Jacqueline Susann Copy Share Image
“Writing is like having your teeth extracted. It only hurts while you're doing it.” — Jason Blacker Copy Share Image
'Bleak House' remains a great novel for me, and I love 'David Copperfield.' — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
“Literature is and should continue to be a vehicle that dispels 'otherness' or the 'outsider” — Mala Naidoo Copy Share Image
Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“I don’t even pretend to believe I know everything; I just believe in arguments God told me I had a pretty good… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“It's great to be anywhere as a writer. It saves you from implication in the ugliness of the place and justifies your… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
I think e-books are terrific in their own right. I love being able to get on a plane and basically carry around… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
A BOOK?! WHAT D'YOU WANNA FLAMING BOOK FOR?...WE'VE GOT A LOVELY TELLY WITH A 12-INCH SCREEN AND NOW YA WANNA BOOK! — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The truth is, I can’t read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“Books have been vastly important in my life - as both a reader and a writer. I've learned that the great gift… — Bob Smith Copy Share Image
I like to always stop with a couple of pages that I haven't - that are just raw copy, where I haven't… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems. Books… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I decided each name on each spine was the person who the book had been written for, rather than who had written… — Nathan Filer Copy Share Image
“their authors for a dime. Well, we couldn’t find that publisher, so we decided to do it ourselves. PubYourself has long been… — Angelina Vance Copy Share Image
“And maybe it was fair; if a book was any good, it was a slap in the face to someone.” — John Irving Copy Share Image
I guess my comfort zone as a writer is diametrically opposed to my comfort zone as a human being. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
It sounds shameful, but on my best days I write only about three or four hours. — Anne Bernays Copy Share Image
“For me, reading was adventure,but most of all, reading was escape-” — Andrew E. Kaufman Copy Share Image
Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Libraries should be the beating heart of the school, not mausoleums for dusty books.” — Stephanie Harvey Copy Share Image
“A life is like a book of many chapters and topics. Which Chapter are is your life?” — Elizabeth Adeniyi Copy Share Image
Writing improves in direct ratio to the things we can keep out of it that shouldn't be there. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Who is happy sitting alone at home, reading a book, smiling like a lunatic? A WRITER.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read. — Christian Bauman Copy Share Image
Keeping a journal is the number-one best way to develop your written voice. — Camille Perri Copy Share Image
For myself, I keep writing. I've got to do something. I can't sit on my hands and do nothing. — Angus Young Copy Share Image
I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories. — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
