I write pretty much every day, but I don't have any desire to publish anything. — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip. — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
I spend a huge amount of time writing about the book instead of writing the actual text. — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyeilding calling and my passion.” — Elizabeth Reyes Copy Share Image
“I'll belong to libraries wherever I go. Maybe eventually I'll belong to libraries on other planets.” — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“Mr. Gradgrind greatly tormented his mind about what the people read in this library:” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write for people my age. And my inspiration over the years has changed dramatically. — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
I am so fortunate to have a mom who shared with me her love for books and helped me, from my earliest… — Robin Lopez Copy Share Image
“God has given every man an opportunity and a chance to re-write his or her story; it is up to you to… — Bayode Ojo Copy Share Image
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other… — Caroline Gordon Copy Share Image
“I bet you a million dollars there are less than five books in this whole house. What kind of life can you… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to war. It's right… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Lately she’d been listening to books on tapes, fat womanly novels as she thought of them. Maeve Binchy, Gail Godwin, Marian Keyes.… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Without any reading time in class, too much homework, and little choice provided in reading material or writing topics, Sarah keeps her… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
I write with the idea that nobody will care about what I've written; I publish with the idea that nobody will care… — Lauren Grodstein Copy Share Image
The Catcher in the Rye had such a deep impact on me, because it felt like it was just Holden and me.… — Rowan Blanchard Copy Share Image
I don't revise a lot when writing short stories. As far as the novel, I definitely thought more about plot. Honestly, I'm… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
There was always that thing with 'Johnny' - I always saw myself as his writer and PR. But when he got out… — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
I got hit by the bug of reading - not via a person, but via the one-room library in our small town.… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“There’s an analogy I came up with once for an interviewer who asked me how much of my material was autobiographical,” Octavia… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
I'm just really not good at being like anybody else or writing like anybody else. — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
“Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.” — Elizabeth Knox Copy Share Image
Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Writing is a divine art, and the more I write and read the more I love it. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A character takes shape in the act of writing. You start with something, and you add or subtract. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
They say writers sell everybody out. What can you do? You know only the people you know. — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“Writing is a deeply spiritual act that can have a profound effect upon the practitioner.” — Phyllis Theroux Copy Share Image
“Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more.” — A.E. Croft Copy Share Image
