Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to figure out ways to keep hold of memories. My one-sentence journal, for instance. — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“I don't write because I want to write. I do it because I have to. I just wish it was my day… — Stephanie Michel Copy Share Image
For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working. — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
“few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
When we read a book, we have a blurry image that's kind of physical but blurry. But we have an emotional image… — Niels Arden Oplev Copy Share Image
Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and… — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
How can you tell? That I like books, I mean. The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Let me tell you, if I could write one-tenth as fast as some of my friends, I'd be made. I'd be it.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“I hope that I capture something in my work that is about the elusive, the magical and powerful and the transformative. The… — H Raven Rose Copy Share Image
In the end, the difference between a published writer and an unpublished one comes down to one thing: The unpublished writer gave… — Judy Delton Copy Share Image
“If you're not scared when you are writing you're not working hard enough. You'll be afraid but you have to keep going.” — M. Molly Backes Copy Share Image
People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I'm out there to clean the plate. Once they've read what I've written on a subject, I want them to think, 'That's… — Richard Ben Cramer Copy Share Image
“I am a reader, a flashlight-under-the-covers, carries-a-book-everywhere-I-go, don't-look-at-my-Amazon-bill. I choose purses based on whether I can cram a paperback into them, and… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
It has been the sad experience of many that much of the best and the most beautiful is lost to those whose… — Charles Webster Leadbeater Copy Share Image
Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Listen," he said one afternoon in the library. "You have to read a book three times before you know it. The first… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The goal is not to be famous. The goal is to write. And to love doing it every day.” — C.G. Coppola Copy Share Image
I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time. — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing. — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
Books are only but a mirror of what knowledge we desire, in our minds and in our hearts. — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind. — Patrick Dennis Copy Share Image
I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type. — James Salter Copy Share Image
The morning is always my best time of the day for writing because that's when my head is best. — Zoe Foster Blake Copy Share Image
“Books are like friends you can never put them down no matter how much you hate it...” — morgan Copy Share Image
You can be writing every day. When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story. — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
