“Nothing that happens to a writer--however happy, however tragic--is ever wasted.” — P.D. James Copy Share Image
[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“ There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Every book tells a story, so you better be ready for the adventure.” — Jessica Kinney Copy Share Image
The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“People who read books," he went on, "tend to be dispensable. Extremely.” — Ninni Holmqvist Copy Share Image
I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'm supposed to follow, or the Fantasy Police… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's what writers do- Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.” — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“The banal advice of writ in teachers is "write what you know," but the truth is, you don't know a place until… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
“I wanted to hide away and write. I wanted to meet characters who would climb up my pen. I wanted to create… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new… — Luisa Valenzuela Copy Share Image
A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best test to know whether an entity is real or fictional is the test of suffering. A nation cannot suffer, feel… — Esther Rantzen Copy Share Image
I just try to put the thing out and hope somebody will read it. Someone says: 'Whom do you write for?' I… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“All good writers write [terrible first drafts.] This is how they end up with good second drafts and terrific third drafts. .… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Even while I was working on the novel I would also write short stories as relief, just to be in a wieldier… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Personally, I felt pretty safe. Librarians are like priests. You can tell them you want information on just about any subject and… — Eileen Cook Copy Share Image
“Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand.” — Lorin Morgan-Richards Copy Share Image
Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes. — Jane Green Copy Share Image
Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it. — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
“Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“And we’re going to have all the books in the world to read and when we go on trips we can take… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If life was a book I would read it all then re-read the amazing chapters. — Damien Cantrell Copy Share Image
“Out of the millions who write, only very few manage to create an impact.” — Saru Singhal Copy Share Image
“I’d rather be an unknown book in the library of time, than a bestseller in the store of mankind.” — Stephan Attia Copy Share Image
I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all. — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
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