I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I love carrying feelings, it brings out the best in my writings !! — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution” — Jean Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter how many times I chuck Philosopher's stone into the fireplace, another copy appears on the shelf like literary herpes” — Juno Dawson Copy Share Image
Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
I wanted to share my doubts and my culinary, amorous, and cosmic experiences. So I wrote 'Like Water for Chocolate,' which is… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
I've wanted to write a book on embryology, that extraordinary journey where you start off as a single cell and end up… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
“I want my books to be the illicit secret pleasure each reader is anxiously anticipating to open and savor.” — Melinda De Ross Copy Share Image
I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Reading is a privileged pleasure because each of us enjoys it, quite complexly, in ways not replicable by anyone else. But there… — Robert Alter Copy Share Image
Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Mind you, after your silly debutantes have finished their proper posture and walking lessons, tell them it never killed any young lady… — Gaelen Foley Copy Share Image
“To daughter Scotty Oct. 20, 1936 p. 313 Don't be a bit discouraged about your story not being tops. At the same… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Sometimes I've drawn on autobiographical material, maybe situations that I've felt trapped by, and turned them into something else, but in a… — William Wegman Copy Share Image
I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Good fiction is not defined by the masses, but by the tentative ear.” — James D. Maxon Copy Share Image
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else. — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
I learned to write from different points of view and not just something I would say. — Maren Morris Copy Share Image
I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what. — Maggie Grace Copy Share Image
You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write. — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
“Good writing is made up of characters who are bigger than their circumstances.” — Michael Knight Copy Share Image
Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
