“I’ve often thought the biggest element of successful writing is the ability to get the seat of your pants to the seat… — Agnes Nixon Copy Share Image
It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The editing process, to use a slightly grim analogy, is like the slow suffocation of lots of babies. It's like, which finger… — Edgar Wright Copy Share Image
Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I lay in bed reading. I wasn't enjoying the book, but it's a habit with me, once I start, to read to… — Marco Douka Fool's Gold Copy Share Image
We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
You have to read a lot so you know what good writing looks like and you get inspired. You have to write… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
I can certainly be surprised by turns a story takes, but usually not once I'm actually in the writing/drawing stage. In the… — Jessica Abel Copy Share Image
I've always relied a lot on landscape in my books, the atmosphere of a particular place, as well as a fair amount… — Kem Nunn Copy Share Image
“If your novel seems to be dragging, one of the first places to look is at the heart of your lead character.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd go for "really great writer." Although I don't think I am. I know I have a style which is recognizable. I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
...Something we once loved, and love now, in the shape of a book. Maybe eBooks are going to take over, one day,… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I've always been able to say what I meant! It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Books gave us a way to shape ourselves - to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful. — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward. — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
I write because the act of writing itself is what drives me. It's a private communication within myself - nothing more or… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
Just like writers can have a lot of different styles, so can readers. It's hard to pigeonhole book buyers. — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
“Fatal Vision was a very successful book that a lot of people like, but the problem with it is that you could… — Bill James Copy Share Image
“But how could she have forgotten who he was—a man who could lose himself in a single book, not to mention a… — Robert Masello Copy Share Image
Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted… — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“Their house had real hard-cover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“That's right I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
I think you have to read a lot. I think if you're going to write about something you better have read at… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
