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
I have deposited some of my journals here for fear of accidents. — William John Wills 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
So much of writing is done alone in a room in sweatpants, with only the Internet for company. — Lauren Weisberger 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
I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
“You write because the brain is an endless wilderness whose roughest terrain can only be traveled with a pencil.” — Durs Grünbein Copy Share Image
I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I do 30 to 40 books a year, so it's a fair amount of reading. Back and forth between nonfiction and fiction.… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“Get your story written, you always have the second and third draft to fix things like tense, 1st vs 3rd person, the… — Andromeda Edison Copy Share Image
I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“If every minute of time elapsed on the screen equals in length of time every other minute, and obviously it does, and… — Dan Joseph Decker Copy Share Image
I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think,… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
“In my living room there are two large bookcases, each one eight feet tall, and they have about five hundred books between… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
“Hey, we live each day, start each day, as if we had an endless number stretching out ahead of us. We don't,… — Gordon Weaver Copy Share Image
I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I love the fact that you collaborate with your readers when you write a book. — Robert Crais 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
“Books are a place away from routine, a place associated with dreams and fantasies.” — The Gutenberg Elegies 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
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
“Libraries are place where one can find satisfaction through books by discovering more ideas” — Abid Hussain Library Officer Copy Share Image
Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being. — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection. — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
