I don't know if I'm a writer who plays poker or a poker player who writes. — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Joy's life in the doing (..) I mean it's the writing, not the being read that excites me.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Dont like sittin the pen it stinks, but in brooklyn we sit in the pens like ink. — Papoose Copy Share Image
An editor does not just join shots. He creates emotions out of the shots. — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely. — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Hasn't everyone written a leave letter while at school? Or sent a text message? There is a writer in all of us. — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
There comes a moment which you must decide whether to skip the page or close the book, it's your decision. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
If you can believe it, I wrote all of 'Awakened' around one chapter. That was the idea for the whole thing, so… — James Murray Copy Share Image
You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I do enjoy writing, and I hope someone gets something interesting out of this book. I already have. Now, If I ever… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Librarians, to Melanie, were somewhat on par wit God- who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Don't you ever get tired of reading?" she asked. "You could hardly be called good company! Don't you know that, with women,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then.… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
“Good fiction doesn’t claim to mirror reality at all. It indicts reality by providing a paradigm of shape and order and justice—the… — P.S. Baber Copy Share Image
I got to take classes in writing with a fountain pen, and actually, something you make is your own textbook. So, while… — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Life has many different chapters of story. One bad chapter doesn't mean it's the end of the book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I take a very long time to write my books - from five to ten years. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while. — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write. — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
“Reading books will get you to the door, reading people will get you inside the room.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Wamiqa means the goddess of wind; my dad is a poet and writer in Punjabi and Gabbi is his pseudonym. — Wamiqa Gabbi Copy Share Image
I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
