I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success,… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn't be novelists. I think story-telling… — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
A computer does not smell ... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Keep your nose in a book – and keep other people's noses out of which books you choose to stick your nose into!” — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
Books showed me there were possibilities in life, that there were actually people like me living in a world I could not… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
I have only one bit of advice to beginning writers: be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
the process of a book's coming to life is not fully complete until your imagination meets mine on the page. The words… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
“Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of… — David Almond Copy Share Image
A couple months after my heart attack, fifty-seven years after I'd given it up, I started to write again. I did it… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“First, her father had a minor stroke, giving Claire a glimpse of his mortality and, by extension, her own. And then she… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
My son and I discovered Terry Pratchett's books together, when he was about eleven years old. He'd be reading on his own… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
Play my own game. You can read all the books, but you have to listen to your intuition and not do everything… — Jennifer Tilly Copy Share Image
I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Under the word refuge , I found this definition: "Small structure high in the mountains where climbers can spend the night." In… — Jacques Poulin Copy Share Image
“It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The truth is, my life was made infinitely more difficult because I didn't read any books. But I didn't read any books.… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
Writing is a journey of discovery because until you start, you never know what will happen, and you can be surprised by… — Mini Grey Copy Share Image
I wasn't entitled to dream so big. The idea of me being a writer wasn't even possible in my mind. Even when… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends… — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
“Books are a form of magic—” the doctor lifted the volume he had just laid on the stack, “—because they span time… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
It's as if I'm setting aside the husband and son, you know, the patriarchal world, for the world of the muse. This… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
If I don't write every day for one week or even, frankly, one year, I don't really think too much about that. — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax,… — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
“As an author I'm in my head all day and I worry that I lose touch with reality. But then my dog… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
“Books crawl down from the shelves; Read themselves through you; Read themselves at you. - Library of Force ” — John Cale Copy Share Image
“There is nothing to writing. You nourish your creativity for months and years until you release your baby out into the world.” — Lydia Larue Copy Share Image
“The problem with being a writer is that it’s not enough to be a writer; one must also be seen to be… — Paul Marlowe Copy Share Image
I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I am always considering the reader. Although this is admittedly kind of odd: Which reader? On what day? In what mood? For… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a writer. Always been very creative. I always laughed at things that the rest of my family… — Bonnie McFarlane Copy Share Image
I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea… — Jefferson Mays Copy Share Image
