I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I just want to shout, "READ ALL MY FAVORITE BOOKS!” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
Younger writers and smaller writers need to live and get by. They need to be paid. It has to be fair. — Nicola Roberts Copy Share Image
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing. — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
I don't write about too many male businessmen, and I'm not apt to write about too many female businessmen. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
“The only thing worth writing about is people. People . Human beings. Men and women whose individuality must be created, line by… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it,… — William Devane Copy Share Image
The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand and enjoy… — Charles Clark Copy Share Image
“Every book is a time machine, a flying carpet, a passport to the most powerful nation in the world… your imagi-nation!” — Mike Thaler Copy Share Image
. . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . . — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The most profound, life-altering gift you can offer the Indie writer you love is to TELL as MANY avid readers as you… — R.S. Guthrie Copy Share Image
“We had good long talks about my writing in the days that followed. "Write of things you know, Julie; familiar, simple things… — Irene Hunt Copy Share Image
The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone -… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
“Writing implies faith in someone listening,/ different in content but not need/ from the child who cries in the night./ Making is… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working. Such writers don't want to irk their readers;… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
“Destroying a book is not the same as destroying a human life,’ argued the artificial philosopher Photozeiger. ‘It is much more serious.… — Matt Suddain Copy Share Image
“Look for the clutter in your writing and prune it ruthlessly. Be grateful for everything you can throw away. Reexamine each sentence… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“Reading is like a roaring fire, it stokes the imagination and keeps it burning bright!” — Kelley Lovelace Copy Share Image
I'm really grateful that I could write. But I don't even mind it going on around me. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
