“In this age when reality is built on big lies, what better place for truth than fiction?” — Mat Johnson Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Authorship is a mania to conquer which no reasons are sufficiently strong.” — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“When I read a book, I want you to be reading it at the same time. I” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
“Because at this time, in this place, Chinese writing exhibits symptoms of a mental disorder.” — Murong Xuecun Copy Share Image
My children's books are written on the belief that every child has a talent and a passion. Each story unfolds into an… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
One of my favorite books is 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' by George Orwell, and 'Catcher in the Rye,' obviously, is a big influence and… — Hozier Copy Share Image
Sometimes life just seems like chapters. Some good, some bad, but all come together to create the story of our lives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I… — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing. — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
You don't know what you need when you're a young writer. You can get small slivers of critical input, advice, comments, but… — David Means Copy Share Image
If I had an author superpower, I would like to have the ability to stop time for everyone else. I feel like… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“I write because of the fragility of our existence. I write because it's my answer to impermanence. I write because it helps… — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
When a child is learning to write, it is extremely easy for it to hold the pen wrongly, and to form its… — James Allen Copy Share Image
“I hadn't had a chance to read an entire novel in weeks. Whatever the others might say about politics, civil war, and… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“What filled the rooms of Grete's cottage so decidedly were woven baskets and wooden boxes and clay pots glazed in red and… — Frances O'Roark Dowell Copy Share Image
I do not begin my novel at the beginning, I do not reach chapter three before I reach chapter four, I do… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“If my books can make one person smile, I am, in my opinion, a successful author." C.A. King” — C.A. King Copy Share Image
Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool! — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
“The notebook smelled the way old books do, like dust and unrealized potential.” — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want. — Walter Becker Copy Share Image
What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Writing seems like the only job where what you think and feel really matters. — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
My grandfather and mother were school teachers, so there was always some discussion around books. — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“this library is another desert. A wasteland of words instead of sand.” — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary occupation; we don't really have any colleagues. — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
