I'm kind of a Luddite myself. I've got a bunch of typewriters at home. I'm a big fan of old technology. — Kerry Bishe Copy Share Image
Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you. — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“Books, including those written by famous authors, may sit unread on forgotten shelves, attracting dust rather than readers’ attention.” — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“You could write your way into happiness. It might not be the happiness you'd experience if Eldric pushed Leanne from a cliff,… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
“The easier a thing is to write then the more the writer gets paid for writing it. (And vice versa: ask the… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“If we didn't already have libraries, they would now have to be invented. They are the keys to American success in fully… — James Billington Copy Share Image
“Here stand my books, line upon line They reach the roof, and row by row, They speak of faded tastes of mine,… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something,… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Everything is written in my mind, more so due to my lack of vision at this point. After years of vigorous writing,… — Ab-Soul Copy Share Image
Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
“Reading your work out loud to yourself it's good. It helps even more if you read to people. If they start yawning… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
I try to write a lot and my process is kind of back and forth. I procrastinate a lot so when I… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
“You are my favorite book. I immerse myself in your story and fall in love with each page. I will never be… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly… — L.R.Knost Copy Share Image
The library was a little old shaby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
“Those who can read, and don't, are only marginally better off than those who can't.” — Verne Harnish Copy Share Image
“Look for your heros in the books people write, not in the people who write books.” — Ozzie Cheek Copy Share Image
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It's just satisfying for me to be able to write kind of like a finished, nice product. — Jonny Lang Copy Share Image
“It is always more pleasant to meet with one who is a bookman than with one who is not.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One might be well read but surely has not read it all. So chill you are at par.” — Talees Rizvi Copy Share Image
I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey — John Cheever Copy Share Image
One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A microphone is to a comic, what a pen is to a writer. There's power in it.” — Pamelar Hickinson Copy Share Image
With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
