“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.” — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old. — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I got where I am through a series of flukes - I'm basically a musician and a writer, not a pop star. — David Essex Copy Share Image
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Hey! I get to sleep in a library and read books all night! Without pity, where would I be? I'm a total… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
When someone says to me, 'I love your book - I read it in a day,' I want to tell them to… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
“... a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When you're rereading or editing your book and you start to expect that this work is going to be reviewed, and you… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
“A voice, a tone, a feeling Deep inside, growing bigger and brighter. Shining against the dark area in my soul. Telling everyone… — Marcus J. King Copy Share Image
In researching literary agents I did what the books tell you to do: I looked at the acknowledgments page of a book… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
I'm not very good in the mornings and often stay up late writing, so I get up at about 10am if I'm… — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
You can't build a vocabulary without reading. You can't meet friends if you ... stay at home by yourself all the time.… — Rudolf Flesch Copy Share Image
I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
Children's authors have to pick words that reflect the spirit of a book and convey its message but also words that light… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I never have found out all I want to know about writing and realize I never will. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“What does the novel do? It tells beautiful, shapely lies which enclose hard, exact truths.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I may have lost the academic plot, but my girly bits were definitely taking notes.” — Georgina Guthrie Copy Share Image
I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second. — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them. — William Steig Copy Share Image
My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work. — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part. — Cynthia Weil Copy Share Image
I couldn't think of anything more pointless than reading a piece of fiction written by a robot. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
