Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Librarians are teaching the next generation how to use digital media responsibly. — Jarrett J. Krosoczka Copy Share Image
I'm writing for entertainment. I like people to reach the end and feel they got their money's worth. — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
“The bookcase was filled with computer games, history books, and sci-fi novels in about equal proportions. Odd reading choices, maybe, but I… — Mike Mullin Copy Share Image
A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
The number-one rule of writing is write what you know--or something like that. So I wrote about my experiences. — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
Visibility is one of the most difficult parts of the self-publishing equation. No matter how great your book is, it is fighting… — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“She was still getting organized, trying to get the books she'd taken out to fit into the shelf under the stroller. She… — Eileen Cook Copy Share Image
I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Sometimes people are so close to the material, they miss an important cross-reference. You can't drop this line because half an hour… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
“They get the same rush from a well-executed trade that a writer finds in a well-turned paragraph—not because there’s money in it,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Tell me this--if you knew you would be poor as a church mouse all your life--if you knew you'd never have a… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“If you want to challenge yourself as an Author, raise the bar as a reader. -Suzanne Steele” — Suzanne Steele Copy Share Image
The formula for creative writing in high school or college is write what you know. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
“Three possessions you should prize: A field, a friend, and a book.” — Hai guan zong shui wu si shu China Hai guan zong shui wu si shu Copy Share Image
The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I know why writers write- they write to untangle the knots in their hearts.” — Virginia Frances Schwartz Copy Share Image
“...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
