“Because, you know, evil demon librarians, not so much known for the honesty policy.” — Michelle Knudsen Copy Share Image
One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
If I'm not writing, I'm not fully living. It has become the essential element that defines who I am. — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
I don't have as tight a time limit anymore but I still write in long marathon sessions and then I won't write… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits? — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Keep writing, dreaming and creating. There are no boundaries to your imagination. Writers are gifts to the world.” — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“She had discovered with surprise and pleasure that as she turned each page, the book was written, as if for the first… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“Poor writing is lazy, careless writing, an attempt to communicate without adequate preparation or care. It is writing replete with passive construction,… — Mark Nichol Copy Share Image
People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I want to keep growing as a writer. I find myself doing unexpected projects and sort of challenging my idea of where… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“..reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You can't be a writer and have nothing to write about. You have to have life experiences. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Experience life, pick up a good book and appreciate the moment, for the moment, not the replay.” — Serina Hartwell Copy Share Image
“You don't see people getting pulled over by the police for reading ebooks on their smartphones.” — Jason Merkoski Copy Share Image
Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt. — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings. — Sam Tanenhaus Copy Share Image
“I have never passed a bookstore without going inside; it's sacrilegious” — Denise Hildreth Copy Share Image
The best booksellers are like trustworthy pushers: Whatever they're dealing, you take it. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing. — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
