Kids think books are cool, especially when they see that people they think books are cool are reading. — Tyler Hilton Copy Share Image
If I wasn't a writer, I don't know what I'd be. Probably a marine biologist or something. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Books are just words, yet arranged by the author so that they speak to your very soul.” — Jason Ellis Copy Share Image
All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm having so much trouble with writing. Maybe if I help other people, it'll be easier for me. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Usually, when somebody really hates your book, they're not going to waste time on it, telling you what you need to work… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing.… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Well — when I write my book, and tell the tale Of my adventures — all these little stars That shake out… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
“Stephen King: If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered” — Afiena Kamminga Copy Share Image
“There are certain books in the history of the world that should never have been written. This book makes all those look… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
“Mr. O'Donnell was at the library counter, performing the sort of grim rituals librarians perform with index cards and stumpy pencils and… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
“What I've learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
“A silent Library is a sad Library. A Library without patrons on whom to pile books and tales and knowing and magazines… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Books are important, and so serious intellectual attention to them is important. While promplty published scholarly articles are also important, the book… — Jeffrey C. Issac Editor-in-Chief Perspectives on Politics 12 2013 Copy Share Image
“A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently. — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“reading a book is taking a journey" -Kate Source google images reading quotes” — Kate Copy Share Image
“Writing about your worries before a test or presentation prevents choking.” — Sian Beilock Copy Share Image
You become a writer because you like to be alone in a room with your books. — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly. — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?' — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
