I want to write books that only those who read them claim they did. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul. — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I see my writing as the process of looking at the usual, but from two steps to the side. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
To me, writing is the most fun. It's not always fun, but finally when you make it come out the way you… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast -… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage. — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
I remember very little about writing the first series of 'Hitchhiker's.' It's almost as if someone else wrote it. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Maugham described the novel as “the story of a nine days wonder in a Lambeth slum” and confessed to being influenced by… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams,… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
When people say "How do you write a book, how does it all happen?" I say, you line things up, and you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody. Whereas, as an actor, you have to audition or… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Writing is incredibly hard. But I want to do it. That said, I make it the top priority in every day, which… — Lucy Jane Bledsoe Copy Share Image
“Christie loved books; and the attic next her own was full of them. To this store she found her way by a… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
When I write a story, it's not like I'm thinking about what I'm doing — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I'm the opposite of those writers who believe that my work is sacrosanct and cannot be touched. — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it. — Edward P. Morgan Copy Share Image
Fighting clutter is like fighting weeds-the writer is always slightly behind, — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The voices in my head wouldn't shut up, so I let them write their story.” — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
“Because writing gave meaning to my life. In case you haven’t noticed, life generally” — Joël Dicker Copy Share Image
Each source that I read, I would look through the bibliography and the footnotes, and use that as a map for the… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
I'd like for the young people, and older ones, too, who don't count themselves as readers, to know the joy of reading… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Any book that you're writing about your life, there are tough chapters that you've gotten through, you've survived them, and kind of… — Shannon Bream Copy Share Image
“...if you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
