Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another. — Bono Copy Share Image
I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing. — Adam Clymer Copy Share Image
Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
One of the things that has puzzled me the most in my years of serious mystery reading is why there are relatively… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
I feel a passion for what we're trying to do.I mean, why does somebody who's old who's a writer keep writing? Because… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
I'm not so good at just throwing out facts and figures and education and all that. I tell stories to captivate, that… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
The short story ... is the most democratic of all the arts; anyone may tell a story, and if it is an… — Hallie Burnett Copy Share Image
All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until… — Eugene Field Copy Share Image
The reason that the book exists is because there was a gap in you. You wrote the book to fulfill that gap… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don't go forward until I know that what I've written is as good… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
At last an authentic voice from Saudi Arabia. Al-Mohaimeed has written a remarkable, rhythmic, genuine novel. Wolves of the Crescent Moon throbs… — Hanan al-Shaykh Copy Share Image
It's something that I know how to do because I taught for a very long time, so I can do it, and… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“The idea was flawed, of course," he said irritably. "Innately and fatally flawed. It depended on two of the human race's greatest… — Tana French Copy Share Image
When I was 20, I wrote a film on spec and sent it to the BBC. They wrote back, 'Usually, when we… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“Trawling through a dusty attic of my addled memory I found that I’d been rather in a lot of daft and amusing… — Guy Pratt Copy Share Image
I like to believe that I don't think of myself as a writer. I am an amateur. Back when I was teaching,… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“A library cannot be made all at once, any more than a house or a nation or a tree; they must all… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. — James Bryce Copy Share Image
If I print something out, I just spend all my time trying to find where I've put it down. — Jennifer Ehle Copy Share Image
All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning. — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
“Don't judge me by my books. They're not my voices, and they were never my stories to tell.” — Nadège Richards Copy Share Image
One of your jobs as a writer is to cut out the noise. All you have is your instincts and your process. — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor. — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
