“I don’t believe in skipping ahead Dale. I read the book all the way through.” — Jay Crownover Copy Share Image
“You know you're a writer when you wish you could meet your characters and hang out with them.” — Kerry Frith Copy Share Image
One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
I think now, whenever I write, there is nothing that will really compare to pen and paper. — Bishop Briggs Copy Share Image
Well, I've discovered that I really like writing, and I feel that I'm good at it. — John Densmore Copy Share Image
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Books are a weird collaboration between author and reader: You trust me to tell a good story, and I trust you to… — John Green Copy Share Image
Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the… — Richard Henry Stoddard Copy Share Image
I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing. — Kelly Jones Copy Share Image
I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“I've been living in fear. I've been living only in books. Which is fine, but … I don't want to just read… — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it,… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“For twenty years I have sat alone at a desk tinkering with sentences and then sending them out, and for most of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“The other option was to go to the public library. Few people came back from a visit to the library. There was… — Joseph Fink Copy Share Image
“It seems as if I can only thing if I write my journal, it just connects the part of my head that… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
You've got to give kids really beautiful children's books in order to turn them into revolutionaries. Because if they see these beautiful… — Tony Millionaire Copy Share Image
“It's not a silly pursuit to read beyond what's handed to you, to seek out new voices and leap over the usual… — Nova Ren Suma Copy Share Image
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make? — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.” — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I envy other writers who claim to have a backlog of books they'd like to write. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Whenever I write, I only write about what I know or what I have experienced or feeling. — Tommy Lee Copy Share Image
When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts. — Leslie Lamport Copy Share Image
