“Fiction is what happens inside a writer's head. Reality takes place outside it” — Barry A. Whittingham Copy Share Image
“The best books inspire you to be better and get up and do something!” — Storytime Corner Copy Share Image
The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
... I had always written but I never took it seriously. It was a way of life, not a living. — Alice Kahn Copy Share Image
If you yourself don't know how to carry pencil, don't wish someone to teach you to write. — Voeun Tivea Copy Share Image
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day. — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the… — Kelly Clarkson Copy Share Image
She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could… — Cynthia Weil Copy Share Image
“If I have not read a book before, it is for all intents and purposes new to me whether it was printed… — William Haizlett Copy Share Image
“remember, you were a writer before you ever put pen to paper. just because you were not writing externally. does not mean… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Here is my room, in the yellow lamplight and the space heater rumbling: Indian rug red as Cochise's blood, a desk with… — Robert R. McCammon Copy Share Image
From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The idea that reading is a moral quality has unhappily led many conscientious persons to renounce their innocuous dalliance with light literature… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at… — Linn Ullmann Copy Share Image
“I like to hear the marching of typewriter keys, the shudder of the space bar, the metallic ding at the end of… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Perhaps if there is anything remotely interesting about my writing style, it is this: more often than not I have no idea… — Vandana Singh Copy Share Image
There are few writers who, if they publish anything, I am going to buy it: Ian McEwan, Scott Turow, Pat Conroy -… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans...… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
“What a scholar one might be if one knew well only some half a dozen books.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Setting is the soul of your story...Improve upon it, and it will take your writing to the next level.” — Richard Ridley Copy Share Image
“For knowledge, you should read books but wisdom is trapped within you, release it.” — Ismat Ahmed Shaikh Copy Share Image
“This is what I want for my students, to lose and find themselves in books.” — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing. — Rebecca Ferguson Copy Share Image
Even in my most solipsistic moments, I don't regard my literary debut as a matter of global interest. — Rebecca Front Copy Share Image
“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise...” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored.” — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading… — Isaac Copy Share Image
