I seem to only write New York stories because it's the only thing that inspires or interests me. — Jennifer Westfeldt Copy Share Image
“Never let negativity derail your journey as a writer. Use the energy for your own betterment.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Books are road map to your destination called success. Refer to good ones.” — Vikrmn Copy Share Image
...When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occassional cheese dip. — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most agents hate prologues. Just make the first chapter relevant and well written. — Andrea Brown Copy Share Image
The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, ... but they are, singly, as nothing without the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
David Arnold's writing is both heartfelt and hilarious. You will fall in love with Mim, even as her grand journey will keep… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
“Every once in a while you come across a novel that reminds you why you think you enjoy reading in the first… — Graham Parke Copy Share Image
What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers. — Sjon Copy Share Image
I know I'm old-fashioned, but there's just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information on a screen,… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
I was a voracious reader and the library fed my curiosity, imagination and my soul. I read by the shelf - biographies,… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
When you write something you know, you're making a story that will work, whether or not there's bits taken. It's always funny… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
“Good books don't make you think, because the author has already done all of the thinking for you, but a terrible book… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“Why shouldn’t I? I demand silently. Why shouldn’t I become a famous writer? Like Norman Mailer. Or Philip Roth. And F. Scott… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
So much of a novelist's writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night. — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Everything I've written up to this point is crap. Now I'm going to write the real one” — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.” — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer. — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Writing is almost a place of dreams for me, and I don't have to give up anything to do it. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate. — John Metcalf Copy Share Image
