Undergraduate writers seem to be, in a way, more open to letting themselves just write. — David Means Copy Share Image
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published? — Chuck Eddy Copy Share Image
“Only a writer would slap a bumper sticker on her car that read, 'Seriously, I'd rather be working' .” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head.” — Lettie Prell Copy Share Image
Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt. — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“It is not true we have only one life to love, if we can read, we can live as many lives and… — S.I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
It's got a lot more room for nuance and an assumption that people have started from the beginning. 'Bloodline' ends up being… — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
The subject, however various and important, has already been so frequently, so ably, and so successfully discussed, that it is now grown… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In literature there was always an epiphany - a tingling moment, sometimes buried - the pearl around which the whole work formed. — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Copy Share Image
I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her… — Hannah Murray Copy Share Image
Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I don't write books because I have answers. I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
The only power source a book needs is you. If you have to leave for a few minutes you have not lost… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“Writing, to me, is the meaning of life. My life became something special because of writing. My desk is for me what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When I was young, I kept trying to read 'Moby-Dick', and I couldn't get that far into it. And I kept thinking,… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
“When I’m writing my own stuff, it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“And when she was home, she spent her days lolling about the house reading mystery novels, watching television, and drinking wine. She… — Kathy Cooperman Copy Share Image
In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
“A book is a blessing that comes into our lives to teach, entertain, and inspire.” — Jesenia Sanabia Copy Share Image
Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter. — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
“There are no reasons. She is obliged to be as she is. We all are. Reasons are in books.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing is like running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand.” — YKRaikou Copy Share Image
Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
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