When your writing is unselfconscious, when it comes from your heart, that's when it's powerful. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Reading is the scourge of childhood because, in a sense, it creates adulthood. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
“I have bad news to tell you two poor boys have died at stonyhurst within the last 3 weeks from getting croup.… — Jon Lellenberg Copy Share Image
There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many… — Patrick Carman Copy Share Image
It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
I am at the bookstore a lot, but let my friends, the professional Birchbark Books staff, handle the day in and day… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“This is what you do when you journal. You are recording God’s grand, epoch-spanning redemptive story as it unfolds in your limited,… — Adam L. Feldman Copy Share Image
“Writers write because they're writers. Because their imaginations boil up inside of them, waiting to overflow into the written word. Ordinary people… — Brian A. McBride Copy Share Image
“What she discovered was mostly shelves of battered paperbacks, not exactly the insulation she’d had in mind, and when the dynamite bundle… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I want to engage the reader. I'm an emotional writer, in the sense that I would be happy if you re-read a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have been ineluctably drawn to libraries ever since I entered that sanctum sanctorum. It was a place of quietude. In a… — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
D.H. Lawrence, I think, defined the difference between writing an article and writing a novel very well. He said, in writing a… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
A hidden nerve is what every writer is ultimately about. It's what all writers wish to uncover when writing about themselves in… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
When my 'Scientific American' arrives every month, I read it cover to cover. — Micky Dolenz Copy Share Image
Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way. — Hugh Lofting Copy Share Image
I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I've been reading since I could read, which was about four or five years old. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen. — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer? — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour. — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
Writing is a way to shape out visible and invisible, in myself as well as in the world. — Eppu Nuotio Copy Share Image
“For Marc, books were objects of beauty, to be loved, not just read.” — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
