“When you read and write good books a divine force will turn you good” — Smart Oyejide Copy Share Image
I want to do public speaking and cause campaigning. I want to write a book. — Bristol Palin Copy Share Image
Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it. — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk. — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
“I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The book tour is a strange institution. You are wheeled about to explain your book and even to justify it. — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“My bubble that I love to live in Suffice me, But to write... It'll either burst or... Demand blowing... If I choose… — Tehreem Rahat Copy Share Image
“At the “Bromige School of Writing” that’s what we like to see – complete confidence… even if it’s shit.” — David Bromige Copy Share Image
A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
“An editor sleeping with his writer was not as bad as a psychoanalyst sleeping with his patient, or even a professor sleeping… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“If you're a lumberjack, you know what to do. You see trees, and you still have a job! If you're a writer,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that writers are much cleverer than they actually are. No, they're not. But they're emotionally clever, and… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
As I've picked up more responsibilities in life, I've found nearly every one of those extra burdens drains me in a way… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
“Well, Betsy," he said, "your mother tells me that you are going to use Uncle Keith's trunk for a desk. That's fine.… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
I'm definitely feeling whatever's going on pretty hard. It's like playing Barbies. You're holding the Barbies, but all of the action is… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Now, I think of my writing as having two foundations: entertainment and meaning. The meaning portion is really me trying to answer… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
If you are reading in order to become a better reader, you cannot read just any book or article. You will not… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
“You and your books. Ah, what a gift it must be to discover the world in those squiggly lines.” — Linda Lafferty Copy Share Image
I hope they find some way to come up with a new story that involves Beast in my timeline. — Kelsey Grammer Copy Share Image
Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes. — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons. — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“Write for the pleasure of writing, but share it for the pleasure of others.” — Lon Grover Copy Share Image
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Books are like eggs. Somethings you have to crack them open to get anything out.” — Clifton L. Taulbert Copy Share Image
I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Writing is a gift. To be good at your gift you need to keep writing.” — Lisa Powell Copy Share Image
