“An author's ultimate reward is expanding mankind's understanding of our world.” — Richard Mathews Copy Share Image
If writing seems hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things people do. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“The high road of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
I urge aspiring writers to write three full-length novels before contemplating publication. — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“The love of books was an instant connection, and a true boon for a girl who tended toward shyness, because it was… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated,… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
I don't have to work on it. I'm naturally a writer. The rapping and writing, they can go hand-in-hand - but rapping… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are so delicate and depend on such… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
The challenges for the writer included deciding which secrets were most important, how many secrets revealed were too many, which characters should… — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
“A truly good book…teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Fiction is a set of observable manifestations, as represented and frozen in language, that triggers a profoundly subjective and individual experience. Ultimately,… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
THE LONG WALK is a raw, wrenching, blood-soaked chronicle of the human cost of war. Brian Castner, the leader of a military… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“When other children dreamed of mansions with fountains and big silky beds and servants to do their bidding, this was what Belle… — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
“I’m feeling a low regarding writing. I sometimes think I should finish working on my book of stripper poetry that I started,… — Sheila Hageman Copy Share Image
