To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one. — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase. — Henny Youngman Copy Share Image
I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal." -The Carrie Diaries pg. 337 — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence. — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
Somebody told me I should try writing. Actually, a lot of people tried to get me to try writing, long before I… — Karen Walton Copy Share Image
You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are.… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
This evening I begin a notebook. If anyone reads this, I trust they will forgive my overuse of "I". I can't stop… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“I like books cause they don't care if your knickers match your bra If you've washed your hair. I like books cause… — Stephanie Butland Copy Share Image
Titles are very hard. Sometimes a title comes before I start to write the book, but often I finish the book, and… — Eve Bunting Copy Share Image
“Our house is old, and noisy, and full. when we moved into it we had two children and about five thousand books;… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Writing on a computer makes saving what's been written too easy. Pretentious lead sentences are kept, not tossed. Instead of sitting surrounded… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“He's spilled the beans. He's poured out His intentions, allowing us full access. The humans put the Forbidden Book on display tables… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“Literature has to remain frustrating — to withhold something, remain incomplete — or it’s not literature anymore, but rather entertainment, edification or… — Tom McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Pride, oh pride—a friend from the past, a bodyguard of the present, and an enemy of the future. Books, oh books—a friend… — Mark O'Brien Copy Share Image
As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed. — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I want to write a story for people where they finish it, and it sticks with them. — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We like to read others but we do not like to be read. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge. — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge. — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. —MARK TWAIN” — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
