The story of your life has many chapters. One bad chapter, doesn't mean the end of the book. — Chloe Copy Share Image
“I don't have to do this alone. If I had my gratitude journal on me now, that's what I would write.” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels. — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share Image
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90) — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's impossible to say certain things ... Writing is something needed by man to share experience.” — Arnost Lustig Copy Share Image
I learned to distrust writers who talked about how they squeezed the blood onto the typewriter. They just don't want you to… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
I'm just trusting my intuition and my taste and writing it quickly - I'm glad people are gravitating towards feelings. — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“November, a dark, rainy Tuesday afternoon. This is my ideal time to be in a bookstore. The shortened light of the afternoon… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me. Books saved me. So, I do believe through… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
“I never knew why or how writing could be so important until I learned about the no-talking rule and found that writing… — Karol Jackowski Copy Share Image
Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of,… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I write for the same reason I eat chocolate - because it is, undeniably a compulsion.” — Emma Shortt Copy Share Image
“Some days being a writer consists of telling yourself you aren't insane, your characters are.” — Nevea Lane Copy Share Image
When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off. — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
“A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy. — Richard Allington Copy Share Image
“A man who reads lives a thousands lives. A man who doesn't read live one life.” — George r r martin Copy Share Image
“To think of the time I spend procuring books... How fitting: a book procured me. Utterly fantastic...” — Erika Swyler Copy Share Image
The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
You always feel like a hack and a fraud when you're writing. It's just how it goes. — Mary H.K. Choi Copy Share Image
“the person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
People read fiction... to learn something about how to live their lives. — Ronald Sukenick Copy Share Image
