In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Perhaps there is some secret homing device in books that brings them to their perfect readers.” — Juliet Ashton Copy Share Image
almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“It was literature in its finest sense, since it made Unk courageous, watchful, and secretly free.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“As Jane Austen once wrote in her diary, "I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on… — Jim Denney Copy Share Image
The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I didn't have to keep a bloody journal. It's terribly boring keeping a journal anyway. I hate it. You spend more time… — Christopher Plummer Copy Share Image
I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“I write poems to save myself, to preserve in ink memories of me long after my soul has dissolved and my bones… — Ayokunle Falomo Copy Share Image
If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When you're making a print book in 2012, I actually think the onus is on you - and on your publisher -… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Why write if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bullfighting risk and we… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“work only during the week, and even then I often find excuses not to sit down and bang out the words. I… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
It's easier to write about heartbreak after you've had your heart broken. You have more material to draw from, you can extrapolate… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Alone in the worn mahogany paneled library surrounded by hundreds of books that filled every shelf and lined every wall from floor… — Lance Taubold Copy Share Image
The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Have you really read all those books in your room?” Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em.… — John Green Copy Share Image
