Read something that YOU want to read, not something that you feel compelled to read. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
London and Fog! When these two come together, it is time to be a writer! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I've always been a writer. I've always loved words, ever since I was a kid. — Julia Michaels Copy Share Image
She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
If you can write a single line of your own today.. then you can write other tomorrow as well.. :P :P — Aamir Sheikh Copy Share Image
A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
Books showed me there were possibilities in life, that there were actually people like me living in a world I could not… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
A computer does not smell ... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Keep your nose in a book – and keep other people's noses out of which books you choose to stick your nose into!” — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn't be novelists. I think story-telling… — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
Life is like a novel and every day is a new page. so if a page is sad next will b happy..… — Thought Of The Day Copy Share Image
I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success,… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
When I began to read as an adult, my first big enthusiasm was Evelyn Waugh. I read almost exclusively novelists of a… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“For a long time, I felt like I was destined to inherit a certain kind of life and so I wouldn’t let… — Kenny Porpora Copy Share Image
“I eat, breath and sleep and that makes me like everyone else. When I write, I become something much greater than flesh… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
“Taylor had been a book lover her entire life and, even at twenty-six, loved nothing more than curling up and getting lost… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Finally, if you want to write, you have to just shut up, pick up a pen, and do it. I'm sorry there… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Fiction's essential activity is to imagine how others feel, what a Saturday afternoon in an Italian town in the 2nd Century looked… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“What the times demand, and in an unprecedented fashion, is that one be—not seem—outrageous, independent, anarchical. That one be thoroughly disciplined—as a… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
“Form the habit of writing your thoughts. The mechanical element assists the power of concentration.” — T. Sharper Knowlson Copy Share Image
People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television. — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
Today when I begin writing I’m aware: something that I don’t understand drives this engine. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has said before — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them. — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
There's no better teacher for writing than reading... Get a library card. That's the best investment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The only failed book is the one that was never written, out of fear-of-failure.” — Giuseppe Bianco Copy Share Image
It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
