The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature. — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The shape of my work's development becomes a little clearer every time I am forced to articulate it. — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
I'm quite an opinionated person, but I'd never written a diary before. I quite like it! — Lily Allen Copy Share Image
You remind me of a library book, because I always want to check you out. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was smarter than him because I had a pen and God was my writer.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't… — David Grann Copy Share Image
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
“Finishing a book has massive implications for the writer, an empty head and an empty bank account springs to mind.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
“Sometimes heroes were found between the pages of a book, and sometimes they stood on a hill, their checkered togas fluttering in… — Leylah Attar Copy Share Image
Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I remember, as a kid, I couldn't wait to get my library card, get my first book. There was a sphinx on… — Keith Hernandez Copy Share Image
“I hope the reader is entertained, thrilled, terrified. Fiction is virtual reality escapism in its purest form, projected on its best most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm still writing in my old age. And still loving it. It fills my days. Writing is my salvation. I just get… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
“Writing is a luxury or, with luck, a rainbow of colors. It is my lifesaver when the water of the river or… — Silvina Ocampo Copy Share Image
Sydney had been horrified to discover my home library consisted of a bartending dictionary and an old copy of Esquire, and at… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the 'Voices Compassionate Education' website and on 'Inner… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Getting a beginner publishing deal really helped me gain the skills. I just kept writing and writing. You just take everything out… — Jon Pardi Copy Share Image
“Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Fiction is harder for me than nonfiction - more gratifying, as a result, when it succeeds. — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
“I want to bury my head in books like in pillows and breathe in stories like air.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers. — Andrew Wylie Copy Share Image
I want to be known for good work first. A good story and good delivery is just that - period. — Megan Alexander Copy Share Image
The writer, as I see it, has the right of way, so it's up to the reader to look out. — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
I am an educationist. I'm an economist. I am a politician. I am also now a good storyteller, you know? — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
“The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
