You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book. — Vin Scully Copy Share Image
“It was from just a few sentences that a writer learned anything from another writer.” — John Irving Copy Share Image
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way. — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“Of all the advantages that ghostwriting offers, one of the greatest must be the opportunity that you get to meet people of… — Andrew Crofts Copy Share Image
I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Because they are inherently social, people find value in reading the same books and watching the same movies that others do. — Anita Elberse Copy Share Image
When I was a newspaper reporter, and later a television writer, I really felt my co-workers became a second family. — Jill Davis Copy Share Image
“There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing.” — Carol Morgan Copy Share Image
We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
When self-publishing started, it was mostly people who really couldn't write. And they just wanted to get their book out, and they… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
By the end of the time I'm writing a book, I'm tearing my hair out and I want to go do stand-up.… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
Somebody will be able to crack ebook files in the same way that people cracked music files a decade ago. An author… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
A piece of literature can be many things but first of all it must capture its audience. You need to seduce people,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I opened a book and in I strode. Now nobody can find me. I've left my chair, my house, my road, My… — Julia Donaldson Copy Share Image
My mother taught me how to read very early on and at school I was ahead of everyone in class... Reading was… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Book proposals are written like business plans. You need to identify your market, see what the competition is in the space, calculate… — J. Kenji Lopez-Alt Copy Share Image
The Book of Books Within this ample volume lies The mystery of mysteries. Happiest they of human race To whom their God… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“My dad used to say that life was like turning the pages in a book. "Oh, look," he'd say, pretending to flip… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“After reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write” — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
“I could write from anywhere, including the moon, provided I had a pencil and not a pen.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
When you write, you lay out a line of words. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Every library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Composition can't really be taught, it is a lifelong learning. — Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Copy Share Image
When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer. — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
“The worst mistake a writer can make is to assume everyone has an imagination.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love telling stories. You know why I love it? Because people love listening. — Lidia Bastianich Copy Share Image
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
