“The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources.” — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good. — Mercedes Ruehl Copy Share Image
“The writer's silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words.” — Khaled Talib Copy Share Image
“Writing at its best is simply taking dictation from your soul.” — Catherine Carrigan Copy Share Image
I've learned you can't write on a computer on a bus. It jiggles too much, especially an Apple. The keyboard jiggles around… — Stephen Stills Copy Share Image
Some people are writers and don't ever want to be on camera, some people act and not write - I like writing… — Adam Conover Copy Share Image
I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
“We want splendid books ... books that prove to us that love is at work in the world next to evil, right… — Laurence Cossé Copy Share Image
When you have a book out, it's like a period of protracted or concentrated megalomania, and it's really not normal or good… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
“Stop beating yourself up over all the days you didn’t work on your story. Focus on what you can do today. Sit… — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
I think The Nightingale is my best, most mature, most moving novel, but maybe that's just because I love these characters. I… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I cannot read on a Kindle. I love the physical experience of holding a book, cracking it open, and the process of… — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
My books often involve characters who began in some form of mental isolation, with a feeling of having died to the world.… — Kem Nunn Copy Share Image
“The proliferation of mass graphomania among politicians, cab drivers, women on the delivery table, mistresses, murderers, criminals, prostitutes, police chiefs, doctors, and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Alafair Burke understands the criminal mind. Long Gone is both an education and an entertainment of the first order. This is a… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“What about the university library?” “Um, yeah,” Annabelle said, “and we probably shouldn’t show our faces there anytime soon. Arriane destroyed several… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Writing is an act of discovery in which you peel back the layers of the story as you write it down.” — Matt Forbeck Copy Share Image
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again. — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book. — George Murray Copy Share Image
When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“Each time someone dies, a library burns by John Lennon "the Sky is everywhere” — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
