What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books! — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically. — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing. — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things. — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I am almost six-novels-old. It took me until the third novel to call myself a writer. — Manju Kapur Copy Share Image
“He was distressed to learn that the Pottery Barn Kids gift registry did not extend to children's books in Italian or Yiddish.” — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
A good novelist pays attention to his characters. A good biographer pays attention to the documents before her. A good critic pays… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first. — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we… — James Merrill Copy Share Image
Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You don't need to go to a therapist, you don't need to do all kinds of things. If you want to write,… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
There is a reason there is no such thing as a folk writer. But to be a writer you have learn what… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“We’re meant to read the lives of important people as if they never bothered with breakfast, lunch, or dinner, or took a… — Laura Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Writer David Foster Wallace said that he thought good nonfiction was a chance to “watch somebody reasonably bright but also reasonably average… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“A book would therefore have a twofold benefit. First, it would rid me of my demons and perhaps save some innocent conversationalist… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
“I think books find their way to you when you need them. Whenever I feel like I'm not going to live to… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young. — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“Ignatius B. Samson, welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“I'm so passionate about my writing, there's page-spunk pouring out of my fingertips.” — Mike Philbin Copy Share Image
The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
“A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time. — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer. — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
