“The power of the pen does not reside in the ink but in the character of the person doing the writing.” — Aaron Fruh Copy Share Image
A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Writing, directing - it's just torture every time and it doesn't seem to get any easier. And yet I love them and… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I think writing is really a process of communication. . . . It's the sense of being in contact with people who… — Sherley Anne Williams Copy Share Image
As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We're only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be… — J.A. Konrath Copy Share Image
Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books? — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I don't think there is ever objective biography. Our vision of our subject is always shaped by who we are. So I… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“...but every living soul is a book of their own history, which sits on the ever-growing shelf in the library of human… — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
There's a lot about being "A Writer" that has nothing to do with writing. That's one thing I've discovered. You've got to… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
It's something that's difficult to explain but I think all writers work this way to some extent, whether we're aware of it… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
“People become librarians because they know too much. Their knowledge extends beyond mere categories. They cannot be confined to disciplines. They bring… — Erica Olsen Copy Share Image
After a while the business end of writing takes too much of the writing time. Better to pay someone ten percent and… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Dastardly devious, cleverly conceived, and just a whole lot of fun to read, DEATH PERCEPTION is Lee Allen Howard on fire and… — Michael Arnzen Copy Share Image
I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I love being able to be a writer. That's what I moved to New York to be. — John Searles Copy Share Image
“Did she always have something to read in front of her so she wouldn't have to look at anything else?” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Good books and bad books, like people, are part and parcel of life. Keep reading, books and people.” — Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma Copy Share Image
There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written. — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
“A reader lives a thousand lives before they die. The ones who never read live only once.” — Emily LeClair Copy Share Image
I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth. — Brian Hodge Copy Share Image
The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
If you are any kind of writer at all, you are in all of your writings. — David M. Evans Copy Share Image
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have always imagined that Heaven would be some kind of library.” — Jorge Luis Burges Copy Share Image
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.” — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job. — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
