Books open windows to the world and have the power to transform lives. — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
You can't control what's going to happen to the book you're about to publish. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
“It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds...” — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
“Books are like magic carpets, taking us to places real and imaginary that we never thought possible.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live. — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
I kind of like to write fast. It keeps the pacing up. And it keeps me off the streets. — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
I think anyone can write about anything that they have knowledge of and exposure to. — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings. — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
I want to write an essay called "Fear of Mexico," because I always feel like Mexico's this lover that never writes to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Love of the written word. Nurture yet disseminate. Accept and respect people with a different viewpoint. Laugh if you must but spare… — Deeba Salim Irfan Copy Share Image
I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
When I feel something, I write it down so I guess technically it's a personal catharsis, but I would really like to… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
With writing, obviously you can really take the time to crack what you're going to say and build to a big point. — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Back in the pre-internet age there were pirate publishers, especially in the third world, who would print physical copies of books, sell… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I sent a lot of publishing ideas to my publisher, about 30 of them. Each time except 3, i got a "rejection… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
I feel really strongly about not wanting to overly guide the reader about what he or she should think. I really trust… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“There's always moral instruction whether the writer inserts it deliberately or not. The least effective moral instruction in fiction is that which… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I don't tend to redraft, I will try to tidy it up, but basically I feel what I write down first has… — Gerald Seymour Copy Share Image
Because...Beacause it's so good, and there's only one chance to read a book for the first time, and I want it to… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“...I am still librarian in your house, for I never was dismissed, and never gave up the office. Now I am librarian… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
You can write anything you want to,--a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
