Ignore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page! — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
I feel like I could devote myself to far more important things than writing novels. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers? — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Learning hath gained most by those books by which printers have lost. — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
“Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?" "Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.” — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I had thought up the title, 'The Good Luck of Right Now,' several years ago. I had no idea what it meant… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Pleasure reading has long been an American ideal - generations of schoolchildren have headed home for the summer toting recreational reading lists.… — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
I guess I think I'm writing for people who are smarter than I am, because then I'll be doing something that's worth… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“As the reputation of books is raised not by their freedom from defect, but the greatness of their beauties, so should that… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
An astonishing debut. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully written, Stuart Neville’s THE TWELVE is both a heart-pounding thriller and a stunning examination of responsibility… — Jeff Abbott Copy Share Image
Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Various random experiments, cut-ups, fold-ins, juxtapositions, timed writings of other kinds, the "objects assignment" which involves dream, adventure, ancestry. Writing outside, writing… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“[Pliny the Elder] used to say that “no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it.” — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
“I love reading books. You really get hooked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” — Daniel Radunsky Copy Share Image
It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature. — John Banville Copy Share Image
I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off. — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter. — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
“don't talk about all the things you're going to write; put pen to paper instead.” — Shirley Johnson Copy Share Image
I suppose the danger when you have a job that involves writing is you can be a bit isolated. — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
“No one knows the scent of books, or the scent of perfume, until someone opens them.” — Omaid Ahmadzai Copy Share Image
“I have so many schemes about writing – so much I want to see and feel and do.” — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
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