“A writer's life is never boring when you have imaginary friends to play with!” — Christie Silvers Copy Share Image
“Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.” — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.” — Shay Youngblood Copy Share Image
It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection. — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong.… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
My ideal is to write most of the day, then go running, find friends and socialise all evening; my mind recharges with… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
If you think it's worth writing a book about then that means you suspect that you're not the only one. You suspect… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
“It may be lazy to sit on the couch all day. But if you are reading a book while sitting on the… — Kristin Hansen Copy Share Image
Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane. — Justin Halpern Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, when I'm writing in the first-person, is like a form of acting. So as I'm writing, the character or… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this… — Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
I think kids abandon stories all the time. They start stories and get frustrated or get a different, better idea. I think… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
“I use no figure of speech when I say that we may now buy our books in bulk. I saw, only this… — Adeline Knapp Copy Share Image
“Please stop patronizing those who are reading a book - The Da Vinci Code, maybe- because they are enjoying it. For a… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Unfortunately writers take a very small part of the profit on their books, and I think in the e-book world there is… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
“When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
In my class - in all fifth-grade classes - we were required to read 'classics,' books like 'Shiloh,' which is about a… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about being an American writer is you've got this vastness to draw from. — David Means Copy Share Image
“Don't read a book to let the time pass...let the time pass to read a book.” — Nicholaa Spencer Copy Share Image
What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.” — Y.S. Lee Copy Share Image
Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“Ir you're a writer, reading is part of your job description. ~ Mark Rubinstein” — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
My books are, in a way, a record of my life - that part of it that came to flower and fruit… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“That’s what I try to do—write sentences that won’t be like sand castles.” — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction . — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want? — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“She'd been an actress, an artist's model, once or twice a kept woman, through all a voracious reader.” — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place. — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
