It's the writing, not the being read, that excites me. Joy is in the doing. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I've loved reading since I was a kid. Sometimes I have two or three books going at the same time. — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“...While I rather doubt whether, as has often been claimed, everyone has at least one novel inside them, it is undeniably true… — Richard C. Cox Copy Share Image
What I expect from writers-and from myself as a writer-is to articulate a complex view of things. To incite us to be… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay… — David Shields Copy Share Image
I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
A book is like a treasure chest¦. You open it, and the words are the treasures. If you sleep with your book… — Curly Copy Share Image
When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and you research… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents- were they the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I admire the person who can write it right off. Mencken once said that a person who thinks clearly can write well.… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“A great book does not have to be a literary masterpiece with complicated sentences and words no one has heard of. It… — Amanda Mackey Copy Share Image
I've just always loved books, and I love the idea that we're all just really made of stories. I do also like… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
One ritual is that I don't speak to anyone before I write in the morning. I like to get to my desk… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Writing fueled me, and my task was to make it fit into my life. I practiced my trade as an attorney, and… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
“One would expect writers and artists to understand one another better than anyone else and to be more appreciative of one another’s… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
A seamlessly told and scrupulously detailed history of the Hartsoe clan of Haw County, North Carolina, Love and Lament is that rare… — T. R. Pearson Copy Share Image
“I am more of a doer than a writer. I do not live to write. I write because I have lived.” — Thurman P. Banks Jr Copy Share Image
“If you have a book, and an imagination, you can never find yourself alone. Ever.” — William Fritz Copy Share Image
I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know. — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
You can always be writer. It's not so much a metamorphosis as it is finding what you want. — Jason Diamond Copy Share Image
“It was always the bookish ones you had to be worried about. They knew shit.” — Linsey Hall Copy Share Image
This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories. — John Green Copy Share Image
When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist. — Hirokazu Kore-eda Copy Share Image
I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
