A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff. — Tony Hillerman Copy Share Image
A writer should never allow himself to be lulled out of the vigilance native to his profession. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Writing is probably the least glamorous profession there is. This doesn't change when you become an author. — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
Print books have an amazing superpower because they don't disappear when you're done with them. Books on the shelf remind you that… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
We're all in this together - when one writer succeeds, all writers succeed. I love discovering new authors. I think we need… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
Woman I was up at 5.30 this morning Writing Making breakfast Filling the dishwasher Watching Columbo - of course! Making packed lunch… — Rosa-Lee Beckwith-Powell Copy Share Image
“I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It was from my mother that I learned reading was not a duty but a reward, and from her that I intuited… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Monstress is an exhilarating rollercoaster of a book. Deeply funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, philosophical, bawdy, and wise, Lysley Tenorio’s stories, written from the… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
Literature has become too psychological. We discount the physical, when in fact much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“It seemed quite logical to the Librarian that, since there were aisles where the shelves were on the outside then there should… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“On those trains you’ll be taking across Europe. A book light always comes in handy.” — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to. — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
