Whoever lacks the initiative to read books stifles his own selfhood, — Carl F. H. Henry Copy Share Image
A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
My parents made reading fun for me as a kid and that's stayed with me my whole life. — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
“and all of the books are behind metal grates, protected like the precious objects they are.” — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“I feel like writing is sometimes the only way I understand anything.” — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
“Are we all on the same page, Delilah? The same page ? I don't even think we're even in the same library… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm,… — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I like writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It's therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“I never wanted to write for writing alone, but for the story, for the characters, and most of all for the escape.” — Kimberly Humphreys Copy Share Image
The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Tobias Buckell combines old world with new in his novel CRYSTAL RAIN. While the rich cultures, drawn in part from Caribbean history… — Karin Lowachee Copy Share Image
“Humans need each other for equilibrium and support. But writers must pull aside to take a quiet walk alone, not just for… — Patricia Hickman Copy Share Image
Before I wrote my first novel, 'The Expats,' I spent nearly two decades at various arms of publishing houses such as Random… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you… — Margaret Bourke-White Copy Share Image
I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“All fiction is better with explosions," said Jared. "Basic fact of life.” — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
I write in the morning - and then I'm always experimenting and tasting recipes for the books. — Diane Mott Davidson Copy Share Image
I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
After four years of Freudian analysis I realised I had written Solitary Man about myself. — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected. — Louise Gluck Copy Share Image
I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Who are these people who think a book comes with a guarantee that they will like it?” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
