Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Each time you write something, part of you grows. You're training your artistic muscles to find your voice. — Pen Densham Copy Share Image
Which editor? I can't think of one editor I worked with as an editor. The various companies did have editors but we… — Joe Simon Copy Share Image
I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
For every time a loved one leaves your life two new chapters begin; Yours, and Theirs. But don't worry about the reading,… — Tyler Urann Copy Share Image
“Good writing is like music. It has its distinctive rhythm, its pace, flow, cadence. It can be hummed. The great stylists seem… — Leonard Ray Teel Copy Share Image
I have always been immersed in a world filled with words, earlier as a reader and now, finally, as both a reader… — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
“The beauty of being a bookseller is that you don't have to be a literary critic: all you have to do to… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Read what gives you delight—at least most of the time—and do so without shame. And even if you are that rare sort… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
“In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always… — Martha Cooley Copy Share Image
“Some writers might tell you that writing is like a piece of magic - a process of creating something out of nothing,… — Billy Marshall Stoneking Copy Share Image
At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
Alexis Coe rescues a buried but extraordinarily telling episode from the 1890s that resonates in all sorts of ways with today. That… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The effect of Amazon’s monopsony in the book business is to constantly force authors and publishers to work for less money. In… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I didn't want to look back in 10 or 20 years and say, 'Yes, I always wanted to write that piano sonata… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
The pleasure of reading a story and wondering what will come next for the hero is a pleasure that has lasted for… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
“Reading sends you on one adventure after the other. It's a way to escape from the world, and comfort you at all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy. — Steve Fossett Copy Share Image
If I get ideas independently of the act of writing, they never really fit. So for me, there's no hanging out, waiting… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“She took to reading with a fervor so extreme, Baba Joseph had to take the books from her hands by force. 'Your… — Nancy Farmer Copy Share Image
I think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write. But honestly I'm glad I didn't do it back when I was twenty-five or so, when it's… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
I've been writing books without ego for a very long time. I feel like it will get what it deserves. Or won't… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
“The reading rooms were large and quiet. Their windows were filmed in dust and desiccated insects, and seemed to age the light… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“If I behave like a good boy and take my Prozac...then I won't be able to write anymore. I'll have Writer's block… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work. — James Purdy Copy Share Image
I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.” — Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst Copy Share Image
“Reading, for pleasure and knowledge, has always been, will always be one of my favorite things to do. (Larry Brown: A Writer's… — Larry Brown Copy Share Image
I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I would love to see writing taught online because at university like Yale, there are not enough teachers who are able to… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
It's important to read because it's really good for your vocabulary. It's really good for your imagination. I enjoy reading because I… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
