Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk. — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
“I will read just about any book at least once! No matter what genre, I just love to read!” — Traci Wilcox Copy Share Image
“Love when you open up your kindle and find the next book in series you forgot was coming <3” — Tara Ahrendt Copy Share Image
“Never underestimate a writer's vanity, especially that of a mediocre writer. (The Angel's Game)” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.” — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing. — William Trevor Copy Share Image
There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks. — Mabel Seeley Copy Share Image
If I don't have time for the writing, it's because I'm not making that time. It's really just a question of whether… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“Studies show that journaling is a powerful tool to help get worries under control and out of your head.” — Daniel G. Amen Copy Share Image
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
I highlight everything I find interesting, and then type out everything I've highlighted, and then print out everything I've typed, and reread… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Post 'Laila Majnu,' I was just sitting at home because I wanted to be part of a story that is as special… — Tripti Dimri Copy Share Image
“Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I'm very much a man of the moment. I can think about an idea for a year, two years, even four years… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The creative writer is compulsively concrete . . . . His fictional house should be haunted by ideas, not inhabited by them;… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Hannah Tinti writes with uncommon grace and stunning insight. Her quirky tribe of outcasts will break into your dreams and steal your… — Melanie Rae Thon Copy Share Image
In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself.… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
The book has very specific qualities. Let's say in 2300 they discover the physical book, after having lived with the digital book… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
I used to love 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe,' and I can still remember listening to them before I would… — William Moseley Copy Share Image
“No one ever goes to libraries. And they know ALL the good stuff. (Layla Miller)” — Craig Kyle and Chris Yost Copy Share Image
The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Because books saved my life, literally, I've become close to them” — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama. — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“I could write paper people and I would love them too; I could make them almost real.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.” — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
You know there's some great folks, great story telling at 'Dateline,' and I'm glad to be a part of it. — Lester Holt Copy Share Image
“My tbr list is an erection all on its own...it just keeps getting bigger.” — K.M. Golland Copy Share Image
I recommend free writing in the morning and the evening as a type of mental shower. — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life. — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
