“I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible.” — Manoj Arora Copy Share Image
I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader. — Nuruddin Farah Copy Share Image
When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
I'm much more interested in allowing a story to happen, and people find whatever meaning is in there. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts. — Theo Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm going to work… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
“Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Penelope Fitzgerald's nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
I'm still not sure what pulled me into the career I chose, even though, now, I can't imagine having done anything else.… — Peter Gzowski Copy Share Image
The best I can do is, it's like a 'ding!' You're writing, and then something starts falling into place, and you hear… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“All fiction is to some degree contrived. If it is not contrived, then it actually happened, therefore making it a stolen idea.… — Connor de Bruler Copy Share Image
I love books where you can't get out of bed. You want to consume them in one sitting, devour them. Those are… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
Everyone tells you to write what you know. It’s the tried-and-true advice every writer hears at some point in her career. But… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
“I work it out. It is the act of reading itself I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“1. Write like you’ll live forever — fear is a bad editor. 2. Write like you’ll croak today — death is the… — Ron Dakron Copy Share Image
There are days when I should be writing, and I am so tired that I can't. And the fatigue also affects my… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
The funny thing about writing is, although you are writing about an experience which only you have had, you are trying to… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
“You turn the book over in your hands, you scan the sentences on the back of the jacket, generic phrases that don't… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The Baby Name book can be a very dangerous tool in the hands of a prolific author.” — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
A novel is challenging, because you have more story than you need and you have to select and narrow. — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
This strong sense of who I am that I've always had, since I was very young, is what makes me write. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute. — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age. — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
Writer's block? Don't worry about it. Either it goes away or you die. — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
