It's easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity. — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I think if you would like to describe composing as an act with one word, "slow" would be the word. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you. — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
“Thomas Mann that “a writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” — Alexandra Johnson Copy Share Image
There's a lot of writing that breaks the mold of a veteran being one thing instead of every single person being their… — Fred Hechinger Copy Share Image
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if… — C. S. Forester Copy Share Image
I wrote my first book when I was 22 years old. I have a way with words and I love to write.… — Tony Gaskins Copy Share Image
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fairly abstruse concepts, you're already putting a heavy… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the 'Voices Compassionate Education' website and on 'Inner… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Sydney had been horrified to discover my home library consisted of a bartending dictionary and an old copy of Esquire, and at… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“Writing is a luxury or, with luck, a rainbow of colors. It is my lifesaver when the water of the river or… — Silvina Ocampo Copy Share Image
I'm still writing in my old age. And still loving it. It fills my days. Writing is my salvation. I just get… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
“I hope the reader is entertained, thrilled, terrified. Fiction is virtual reality escapism in its purest form, projected on its best most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Now lend me your ears. Here is Creative Writing 101: 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way… — Kurt Vonnegut jr Copy Share Image
I remember, as a kid, I couldn't wait to get my library card, get my first book. There was a sphinx on… — Keith Hernandez Copy Share Image
“You’ve got to write every day as if you were clocking in for a job. Or if not every day, then damn… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.” — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter. — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“There are no reasons. She is obliged to be as she is. We all are. Reasons are in books.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Writing is like running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand.” — YKRaikou Copy Share Image
I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
It's the writing, not the being read, that excites me. Joy is in the doing. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
