A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the… — Justin Winsor Copy Share Image
If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good… — Mary Gordon Copy Share Image
Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I just want to be a free writer. I think I am serving my country and my people by providing an independent… — Jamal Khashoggi Copy Share Image
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no idea where… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen,… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
I often give this metaphor where I say that writing short fiction is like surfing, while writing a novel is like navigating… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
O my darling books! A day will come when you will be laid out on the salesroom table, and others will buy… — Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy Copy Share Image
“She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with… — Susan Coolidge Copy Share Image
Don't market yourself. Editors and readers don't know what they want until they see it. Scratch what itches. Write what you need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Writers do not want to think they are less rational than other people, and at the mercy of compulsions, but in their… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I was working on the book, but in a very subterranean kind of a fashion. And I think that giving yourself permission… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Amaryllis in Blueberry is a rich, evocative story about an unusual family that will sweep readers away to another place and time.… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
I never quite know when I'm not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, "Dammit, Thurber,… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman.… — Thylias Moss Copy Share Image
You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value. — Richard Laymon Copy Share Image
“This is what we do with books: we put our longings and our questions and our angst onto trading ships and send… — Julian Darius Copy Share Image
Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Reading to my daughter has been therapeutic. I've gone back and started to learn to read on a very basic level. I'm… — Patrick Dempsey Copy Share Image
When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted… — David Friedman Copy Share Image
I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I write at all different times. I write in my bed, I write at the table. I need to get it together.… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“A good book is like really loved item at a really good restaurant, every time you go there you order it to… — K.A Cameron Copy Share Image
When it comes to books...They're like lifelong friends to me; I need to know they're there, even if I don't check in… — Vendela Vida Copy Share Image
My sets are not peaceful. It's a beautiful catastrophe. I am running around like a headless chicken. I don't sleep because I… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to… — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
“In The Gutenberg Elegies, Sven Birkerts laments the loss of “deep reading,” which requires intense concentration, a conscious lowering of the gates… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
That's the thing about the writer's life is that you have to have self-discipline. Otherwise you'll never get paid. — Eric Heisserer Copy Share Image
The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen… — Andrei Sinyavsky Copy Share Image
Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
