I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Where you read a book and when and with whom can make a big difference.” — Robert Coles Copy Share Image
When I was at school I wanted to be a writer and an actress. Then this whole modelling thing happened. — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“What are you reading, my dear? A pretty sight, a lady with a book.” — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“Write because you love it, not because you want to become rich. Your story will be better for it.” — Lana Axe Copy Share Image
“My reasons for writing had to be my own, divorced from expectation.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“You must seduce poetry with the heart of your words before she'll sprinkle you with the magic of hers.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding. — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
After 58 years you'd think writing would get easier. It doesn't. If you're lucky, you become harder to please. That's all right,… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“The more I write the more I learn about writing. It is easy to say what looks good or sound good on… — Jeanette Michelle Copy Share Image
There's a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“That there can still be as-yet untranslated fiction by [Tove] Jansson is simultaneously an aberration and a delight, like finding buried treasure.” — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“The important thing is not so much to read fast, as to read each book at the speed it deserves. It is… — Jacques Bonnet Copy Share Image
There have been plenty of things that I've written that other people haven't cared about, but it hasn't stopped me from being… — Mike O'Malley Copy Share Image
“Beth had been a middle school science teacher and Joni was a librarian and they both had collections of weird stuff they… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
The apartment was entirely, was only, for her: a wall of books, both read and unread, all of them dear to her… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“I try to write the books I would love to come upon, that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Therefore I beg you, reader, not to rejoice too greatly if you have read much, but if you have understood much. Nor… — Hugh of Saint Victor Copy Share Image
When it is going well, it is the best job [writing] in the world. For those few hours, you are god, in… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
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