You never know what you'll want to write until it starts writing itself in your head. — Jill Ker Conway Copy Share Image
President Trump named Rand his favorite writer and 'The Fountainhead' his favorite novel. — James B. Stewart Copy Share Image
If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it. — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it. — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“Words cannot do justice to the pleasures of a good bookshop. Ironically.” — Unsure of origin Copy Share Image
By making time to read, like making time to love, we expand our time for living. — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
“Dogeared pages were Antichrist of book lovers everywhere.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
A writer's problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I like to write about stories and life experiences of me, the people around us, and just the things I see on… — Sam Fender Copy Share Image
Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
Being in a room with other people's energy yields such a different result. I love writing by myself still, but there's something… — Ingrid Michaelson Copy Share Image
If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“Marianne Fairfield, Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Public Library; Barbara Fellows, Public Library of Columbus and Franklin County (Ohio); Vera A. Green, Carnegie Library… — Public Library Association Copy Share Image
I don't really decide what the core of the story is before I write. I write to figure out what the story… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
I always encourage authors (especially new authors) to be as generous as we are blessed. For one thing, it is a way… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
For a very long time, I thought everyone I met through the process of getting an agent and a publishing deal had… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired… — Nat Turner Copy Share Image
“He didn't need a psychiatrist to point out that writing had its autoerotic side — you beat a typewriter instead of your… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I follow my own nose. So I read things that are different. People will always say to me, "Have you read Robert… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Certain writers have it very precise and there's not much room to add something. — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
“Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer. — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Whenever one writes a book one should have a notional reader in mind. — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I feel like a writer, sometimes I just feel like a snitch.” — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Deok Sun, like me, is learning about the world every day, but not through books. — Lee Hye-ri Copy Share Image
Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
