“I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work” — Larry Brown Copy Share Image
My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids. — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP. — John Hersey Copy Share Image
Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married. — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyielding calling and my passion. — Elizabeth Reyes Copy Share Image
It's best to be happy do your favorite thing to do like,reading a book — Maria Angelica Zabala Copy Share Image
The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story… Writing is seduction. Good… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“There is a reason why I am a writer... sometimes it is the only way you can get people to listen to… — Phil Wohl Copy Share Image
Because I have two houses, I invariably get immersed in a book and then discover it's at the other house. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day... You don't go to a well once but daily.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
“Meg was a great reader and was never without a book; while walking to school she often had one open in her… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
Listen closely. Theres a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I dont give a damn if my work is commercial… — John Fante Copy Share Image
Growing up, if I didn't want to talk to someone about the way that I was feeling, I would go write instead.… — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
Dickens was born in 1812 and died in 1870, having produced fifteen novels, many of which can confidently be called great, as… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“When it's time for you to write how you want your life to go just write right before your pen run out… — efiba progress Copy Share Image
So here I am, sending a two-ounce mouse down into a dungeon with a sewing needle to save a human princess, and… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Since the choice of what we curl up with is often crucial for our solace and sanity, we need to learn how… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Writing is… being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling,… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
Nicola Barker is both prodigiously talented and admirably fearless. I have loved her books. But for some time, I had little or… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
If you can get every kid to have found a book that he or she loves, then you've done a great job. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Two Chapters of "The Complete "Kids Want To Know" 5 Book Boxed Set” — J.W. Patterson Copy Share Image
There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I think I'm becoming addicted to buying books!...Just gotta make time to read them now. — Audrina Patridge Copy Share Image
Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer. — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
“Expand your mind. Read something every day whether it’s a book or an article.” — Alison G. Bailey Copy Share Image
“An author of fiction is a god of the world he creates. But it must be a world others want to inhabit.” — Raul Ramos y Sanchez Copy Share Image
I start writing at 7.30 A.M. and write till noon. I've never written a single word after 5.00 P.M. — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical. — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all. — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
