If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads. — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
I like writing my own stuff. If a book came along I would maybe do that. — Jody Hill Copy Share Image
... the novel is called upon like no other art form to incorporate the intellectual content of an age. — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“In the beginning - not now, thank God - Patty was always sharing the important books of her life with him, like… — Richard Price Copy Share Image
“There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
All of my books, which are supposedly, I mean they're called YA novels, my hope is that adults would find no reason… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
“You are a writer—you write one chapter and go on to the next and the next and so forth. You manage the… — Patrick Timm Copy Share Image
“But usually, I watched Linda read. I couldn't believe she'd read so much in summer! Sometimes she laughed, reading her book, and… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
It's been so long since a talented writer last occupied the White House; no wonder, then, that American writers have been among… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Write what you like, then imbue it with life and make it unique by blending in your own personal knowledge of life,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
“For me, taking the sort of dry principles of the law and bringing them into contact with human beings . . .… — Michael Ponsor Copy Share Image
I suppose I reached the limit of what I could do with nonfiction books, perhaps because they never felt quite intense enough… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
“Books should broaden us, take us to places we have never been and show us things we’ve never seen, expand our horizons… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book. — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
It is a bad thing if a writer tackles a subject he does not understand. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Discovering dedicated mystery booksellers was a bit like going to heaven without having to die first” — Val McDermid Copy Share Image
I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.” ― Mark Twain” — Russell Blake Copy Share Image
I often wonder, What do people do with all the extra time they save by writing K . — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
If it weren't for the law, I would steal books; if it weren't for my purse, I would buy them. — Harold Laski Copy Share Image
“Second, writing is survival. Any art, any good work, of course, is that.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I could spend all day lost in someone else's imagination. I love reading.” — Joanna Bolouri Copy Share Image
