“person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. —MARK TWAIN” — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge. — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge. — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
We like to read others but we do not like to be read. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
I found in my writing that I could express emotions that, as an everyday person, I have no interest in expressing: these… — James Blunt Copy Share Image
I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior. — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
“Dude, with your voice you are like, 'Look at all these books I've read,' but with your eyes you are like, 'Help… — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
I want to be able to write, that's my first love and I don't want to deviate from it even though I… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
I think sometimes writers must attempt to communicate the incommunicable, because, whether they wish it or not, they're the ones to whom… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“I'm a librarian in town,' she began. 'You sure about that?' The words popped out before he could stop them. Annabelle raised… — Susan Mallery Copy Share Image
Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I sold my first short story while I was home on maternity leave, then began working on novels. Since I was reading… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I am an author-illustrator of children's books - and yet - I must confess I don't do the books for the kids.… — Bill Peet Copy Share Image
I'm feeling more and more thoughts that aren't songs, just reflections. I'm always been very shy and in some ways a prisoner… — Ana Tijoux Copy Share Image
A novel is not an allegory… It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing. — Rebecca Ferguson Copy Share Image
Even in my most solipsistic moments, I don't regard my literary debut as a matter of global interest. — Rebecca Front Copy Share Image
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“This is what I want for my students, to lose and find themselves in books.” — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
“What a scholar one might be if one knew well only some half a dozen books.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Setting is the soul of your story...Improve upon it, and it will take your writing to the next level.” — Richard Ridley Copy Share Image
“For knowledge, you should read books but wisdom is trapped within you, release it.” — Ismat Ahmed Shaikh Copy Share Image
In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
