“Oh this? It's a 'bookworm.' They live in books, and they love to eat important or valuable words.” — CLAMP Copy Share Image
I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it. — Robert Smith Copy Share Image
I have so many ideas and stories that I want to tell. But sitting down to write is a hard thing to… — Pauline Chalamet Copy Share Image
“My muse has more projects on her wish list than I have hours in the day to write. #authorproblems” — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
“A wise man once said that if a book was not worth reading twice it was not worth reading once.” — Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson Copy Share Image
I don't really consider myself a writer, but I am writing so I guess I'm a writer. — Meital Dohan Copy Share Image
All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world. — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
“A writer is lost when he grows interested in such questions as 'what is art?' and 'what is an artist's duty?” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Every time I went to the library, it felt like a treasure hunt: somewhere amid those dusty books was the answer, and… — Jean M. Twenge Copy Share Image
“The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.” — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
“There are many premium writers, yes? Tolstoy, yes? He wrote War , and also Peace , which are both premium books.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I do my writing in the morning, now, if the boy will let me, and in the afternoon when I’m not teaching,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall… — Aldus Manutius Copy Share Image
We live too much in books and not enough in nature, and we are very much like the simpleton of a Pliny… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“I don't have a diary, I don't write things into a diary. I imprint myself into the sky and when the sunlight… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing… Writing well is difficult, but one… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“Some people buried their fears in food, she knew, and some in booze, and some in planning elaborate engagements and weddings and… — Jenny Colgan Copy Share Image
Only when I make movements away from the tribe of indie art and literature. Maybe that's something important for me to keep… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“For books are not absolutely dead things, but ...do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.” — Christy Leigh Stewart Copy Share Image
The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Like, if I want to know about France, I'll buy the book I don't know if that makes me a moron. — Richey Edwards Copy Share Image
Toni Cade Bambara said: “Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.” — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“Living as he now lived was like reading a good book in a poor translation...” — Henry James Copy Share Image
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can. — William Feather Copy Share Image
The best person to write for is yourself—and what better place to start than in a journal. — E. L. James Copy Share Image
I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different. — Rene Russo Copy Share Image
My subconscious does the writing; I don't have control over that. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
