Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I do not wish to produce prose that draws attention to itself, rather than the world it describes. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality. — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The ideal editor will hold you to the best of yourself in the piece. — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
“The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“buying books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.” — arthur schopenhauer Copy Share Image
My mom was a librarian, so I spent most of my childhood in libraries, learning to love their potential for imagination and… — Amelia Dimoldenberg Copy Share Image
Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
A lot of people get writer's block, and I think you just have to show up for work, sit down, and be… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
“The books beside my bed are like the expensive, and suspiciously unsullied, pair of running shoes in the cupboard: an aspiration, and… — Richard Lloyd Parry Copy Share Image
Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender… — Kiki Dimoula Copy Share Image
A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“As someone else once said, "Write what you know". Well I know very little, so I write, and illustrate, Nonsense.” — Paul H Tubb Copy Share Image
Read everything! Don't just read things that are in your comfort zone or things that you think you're already going to like.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and… — Cormac Mccarthy Copy Share Image
I always knew I was a writer. And I always thought to myself, 'Well, why not me?' Someone has to be on… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
“There can't be much development of action or theme in such stories, but at least there is some. By contrast, in the… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
“Some believe that every library looks like a splendid cemetery of human thoughts and ideas. Could librarians be called grave-diggers? However that… — Lara Biyuts Copy Share Image
“Jack London (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“I’m one of few children on the train who can read. Mam taught me all my letters years ago, in Ireland, then… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer. I wanted experiences from Cape Town to right up in northern Mozambique. — Princess Michael of Kent Copy Share Image
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody. — Moliere Copy Share Image
A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper. — Frederick Philip Grove Copy Share Image
“Samuel Johnson: A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it .” — David Shields Copy Share Image
I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Technology has such an impact on libraries in the last 20 years, and the last 10 years in particular. — Carla Hayden Copy Share Image
Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady. — James Frey Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel drawn to writing about my shortcomings because I'm chock full of them. — Jon Bellion Copy Share Image
“Don't give up and just keep writing! If you write well...followers will come! — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience. — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
