I like to be fulfilled in telling stories and in creating, but I'm just a curious person. — Jay Ellis Copy Share Image
“She was addicted to literature like some people were addicted to heroin.” — Allie Burke Copy Share Image
“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“those in the next book! Here you will find my ideas for simple” — Louise Westerhout Copy Share Image
I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading. — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
“Literature is not at the service of the government; on the contrary, governments should do everything in their power to create a… — Murong Xuecun Copy Share Image
One of the books I remember reading when I was young and always thought would be a great role to play is… — Yvonne Strahovski Copy Share Image
“Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first novel… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
The marketplace for books when I entered the business shortly after World War II consisted of a thousand or so well stocked… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Writing is a way of life. I do it because it's a way of experiencing the world, and trying to come to… — Emily Perkins Copy Share Image
“So why does our writing matter, again?" they ask. Because of the spirit, I say. Because of the heart. Writing and reading… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The crazy thing is that when we go to somebody's house, what's better than looking at their bookshelves? Nobody's ever going to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“How does one develop compassion for someone with a completely different set of values without reading something from their point of view?… — Jennifer Steil Copy Share Image
“In my head, owning a bookstore meant I could hide in the back reading all day, while other bookworms came and went… — Kristi Hayes Copy Share Image
“I have never written a novel yet...without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a writer is inspired by the moment, more often they are prepared.” — Loron-Jon Stokes Copy Share Image
'One Minus One' and 'Barcelona, 1975' are more or less autobiographical. — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
“Writing to me is like hitting the herb. No problems, Mon. No worries.” — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
“I really want to be a writer but I don't know what to write about" "You could write about us” — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape. — Allan Gurganus Copy Share Image
I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title. — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man. — Gerald Jonas Copy Share Image
“I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
