When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Books are like a disease. Once you've got it, it's incurrable and lifelong” — Janice Young Brooks Copy Share Image
“Life is what happens in-between writing; almost always a necessary inconvenience.” — Ivor W. Hartmann Copy Share Image
This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I have been writing stories and working on ideas for a long time. I like writing and reading a lot, so I… — Karan Wahi Copy Share Image
“Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
At some point, you have to sit down and face the page alone. At some point, the final decisions need to be… — John McNally Copy Share Image
“Libraries are not, or at least should not be, engines of productivity. If anything, they should slow people down and seduce them… — Barbara Fister Copy Share Image
Sunday night, I reread The Catcher in the Rye until I felt tired enough to fall asleep. Only I never got tired… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
I tend to scribble down notes, lyrics or just random thoughts on pieces of paper, backs of cigarette packs, sometimes on my… — John Waite Copy Share Image
“You have been around since scaly things crawled out of the muck, would it have killed you to read a book?” — Metatron Copy Share Image
If you write, write about what you do and who you are, and you can't be wrong. Don't lie about anything. You… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
“Knowing people can mean so many things. It's like books: there are plenty of gradations between the books one has read and… — Cécile David-Weill Copy Share Image
“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them, let… — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. Launch it into… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The room was lit with small reading lamps and there were books everywhere: piled on the coffee table, under the coffee table,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm glad I have a story to tell. It's unique, it's mine, and I'm blessed to have it. — Chris Harris, Jr Copy Share Image
Writing on 'Love' is so steeped in self-analysis. The writer's room can feel like therapy. — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
No time you spend writing will be wasted - even if you write something that's bad. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Love paints the heart so delicate; so why would my words ever borrow the ink of their own demise?” — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life. — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“If you don't love what you write, then nobody's going to enjoy reading it.” — T.A. Uner Copy Share Image
Each book requires a different kind of treatment and structural gambit. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
