After owning books, almost the next best thing is talking about them. — Charles Nodier Copy Share Image
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“When you write, magic happens. Doors open. People smile and the world is a better place” — Alan Dapre Copy Share Image
I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Paulo Coelho is a very important writer, and I have discovered a lot about myself through his texts. — Tarja Turunen Copy Share Image
I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different. — Kiran Desai Copy Share Image
I want to do something important in my life, and I think that adding beauty to the world with books... really is… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
“I'd get confused and write down things just to write them down and I came to this realization that I didn't do… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When you write, you're supposed to go stand somewhere else for a while, see things from a perspective that's not in line… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Let me give you a piece of advice: Leo Tolstoy is not the only human being on this planet. Yet all I… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“What is the greatest reward a writer can have? Isn't it that day when someone rushes up to you, his face bursting… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the… — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
I always ask young writers, 'Are you certain you want to be a writer? If you're absolutely sure, then do it.' If… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
“Here’s what I thought: what if randomly, gratuitously stimulating our senses through detail and description could generate emotions that would help make… — Daniel Galera Copy Share Image
We're completely confused about the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. To me, the moment you compose, you're fictionalising; the moment you remember,… — David Shields Copy Share Image
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
“I like two types of dust: pixie dust and dust from old, first edition books.” — Nicholaa Spencer Copy Share Image
I'm proudly a crime writer, but it would be really inaccurate to call me a mystery writer. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
The more you read, the more things you will know. The more you'll learn the more aces you'll go. — Dr Seuss Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running. — Gene Fowler Copy Share Image
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke? — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people. — Varley O'Connor Copy Share Image
I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days. — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all. — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity. — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
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