“People who read books," he went on, "tend to be dispensable. Extremely.” — Ninni Holmqvist Copy Share Image
“Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand.” — Lorin Morgan-Richards Copy Share Image
Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes. — Jane Green Copy Share Image
Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it. — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
“Every book tells a story, so you better be ready for the adventure.” — Jessica Kinney Copy Share Image
The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“(A novel is) a paper where your thesis is that these people are real, and you have to prove it.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does… — John Green Copy Share Image
“This idea that the buying, or even the reading, of books is an expensive hobby and beyond the reach of the average… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I am actually hoping to write a series of books! The Amazon was the first one I got finished and have managed… — Helen Skelton Copy Share Image
“The editor will be an extension of your hand; the keys will sing as they slice their way through text and thought.” — Andrew Hunt Copy Share Image
Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“find the experience of diving into a new world the most exhilarating of sensations,” he said. “I agree. Each book is like… — Santa Montefiore Copy Share Image
“A good writer knew when not to write. Anybody could type. Not that I was a good typist; also I couldn't spell… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Amazon has massively - and I'm trying not to use this particular word, but I can't not use it here - disrupted… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors.… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I don't believe that a writer 'gets' (takes into the head) an 'idea' (some sort of mental object) 'from' somewhere, and then… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
I walked into the local library and asked the librarian do you've any books on the meaning of life? And she said… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak. — Elfriede Jelinek Copy Share Image
The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn't write. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms).” — J.M. Varner Copy Share Image
“It's in books that most of us learn how splendidly worth-while life is.” — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
You do not have to protect people's pocket books. They'll do a better job of that than you will. — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.” — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Oh what a feeling when you happen upon a book that seems to pour truth directly into your head.” — Garry Fitchett Copy Share Image
“Finished all work for my MTS. Did get to read a lot of very long books.” — Philip Dampier Copy Share Image
A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
