A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking. — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
When you are writing; do it a right thing, because world begins with writing — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being. — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
“Libraries are place where one can find satisfaction through books by discovering more ideas” — Abid Hussain Library Officer Copy Share Image
Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak. — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
I like embracing kind of normal forms but am always trying to approach them as if no one's ever done that before.… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
“A writer edits his thoughts more thoroughly the more readers he has. You can tell I only have two readers, myself included.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Our life is like a book and when Someone leaves you. It's only the end of a chapter not the end of… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write.… — Harold H. Greene Copy Share Image
I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Take joy in your digressions. Because that is where the unexpected arises. That is the experimental aspect. If you know where you… — Brian Massumi Copy Share Image
Just when you thought the mafia novel was dead, Tod Goldberg breathes new life into it. Gangsterland, the best mafia novel in… — Sara Gran Copy Share Image
I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
My first signing was at my hometown independent bookstore and everyone in the world came. It was so nice. My family was… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or… — Bienvenido Lumbera Copy Share Image
What usually happens is that when I'm nearing the end of one novel a vague idea about what I want to do… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I don't think you think of your audience as much as you think, when you're revising, how it holds together. I mean… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
“INDIE AUTHOR= A writer growing, learning, developing their trade-set based on skills they are acquiring along their journey. (They are not in… — Eri Nelson Copy Share Image
Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again. — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
“Books are a place away from routine, a place associated with dreams and fantasies.” — The Gutenberg Elegies Copy Share Image
My own accumulation of influences is actually what made me a writer in the first place. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book. — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I've been a writer for 42 years and, yes, it is a full time job for me. Not a hobby, but serious work. — Donald McKay Copy Share Image
So much of writing is done alone in a room in sweatpants, with only the Internet for company. — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I have deposited some of my journals here for fear of accidents. — William John Wills Copy Share Image
Whenever I run out of people to write about, I cook up a few ghosts, or they appear before me. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
