“Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.” — Peggy A. Borel Copy Share Image
I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels. — Lee Child Copy Share Image
Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average. — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
“Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse.” — Paul Acampora Copy Share Image
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Isabel Wilkerson's book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don't miss it! — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer… — James Thayer Copy Share Image
A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living?… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The only reason I write is that I feel I have to. Being the creator of a project puts me in a… — David Hewlett Copy Share Image
As a writer I am a virtual pain in the ass. Not only do I unearth the family skeletons, I polish them… — Yust Lundberg Copy Share Image
I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“Reading good books gives a few lessons, stable minds, inner intellects, a lesson of life, and a way ahead to fly.” — Abid Hussain Copy Share Image
The difference between being a part-time writer and a full-time writer is like the difference between dating someone and living with them.… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
There is a book into which some of us are happily led to look, and to look again, and never tire of… — Walter Besant Copy Share Image
When you wrote it didn't matter if hysteria sometimes came up in your face and voice (unless, of course, you let it… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“Plot these days is anti-intellectual and verboten, the mark of the Philistine, the huckster with a pen. There mustn't be too much… — Robert Traver Copy Share Image
When your intention is great enough you will ALWAYS find the time and energy to accomplish your desires. You can state excuses… — James Arthur Ray Copy Share Image
“It only took Alexis a day to read a five-hundred page book. Fiction stories took her to another world where she could… — Lindsay Chamberlin Copy Share Image
I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“They believed all books should be read, for as long as the reader liked.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Good fiction is life with all the boring bits taken out, not with all the hardship taken out.” — Caro Clarke Copy Share Image
“Books are written so their authors can be heard, not so that they remain silent.” — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk. — Robert Anderson Copy Share Image
I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts. — Joseph Haydn Copy Share Image
I've got re-addicted to normal people, which is the loveliest thing to write about. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book. — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
“I could always give you a teaser. You bookish people love teasers, don't you?” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing. — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty. — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
