I gave myself the small task of writing honestly about the kind of life I knew. I believe there is some value… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
Some things that I write, you'll see a page with cartoon pictures or a drawing of a car - like a Ford… — Andrae Crouch Copy Share Image
“Pro captu lectoris, habent sua fata libelli" or, "According to the ability of the reader, every book has its own destiny.” — Terentianus Maurus Copy Share Image
A lot of writing is everybody being revealed, but the reader should feel like only they are being revealed. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“How will I reconcile my interest in and membership of LibraryThing with GoodReads? Can manage a workable appreciation of both?” — Craig Hodges Copy Share Image
Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“The story isn't mine to change anymore. Maybe it belonged to me at first, but now it belongs to you. And to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Let me remind you again that when you put a book out there, you are a published author in a space where… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek Copy Share Image
“Every forest is a good library where you can find many books! Animals, trees, even rocks are the books of this mystic… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I do not begin my novel at the beginning, I do not reach chapter three before I reach chapter four, I do… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I hadn't had a chance to read an entire novel in weeks. Whatever the others might say about politics, civil war, and… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“What filled the rooms of Grete's cottage so decidedly were woven baskets and wooden boxes and clay pots glazed in red and… — Frances O'Roark Dowell Copy Share Image
I teach kids to read on a Saturday for this charity called Real Action. It's a voluntary school because lots of the… — Rachael Stirling Copy Share Image
Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If writers write, then rangers range. And I’d like to wake up every morning and be a mother, so I could eat… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services,… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“I glance back as I am pulling the door shut. I can see Mrs. Kasperek on her bed, in the apartment denuded… — Deborah Meyler Copy Share Image
I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was:… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again. — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
“Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support sustem. (...) She read to discover how not to be Charlotte, how… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“This book is fiction, but there is always a chance that such a work of fiction may throw some light on what… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The dining hall in our section of campus was like something out of an Ayn Rand novel: big, utilitarian, and impersonal.” — Kirstie Collins Brote Copy Share Image
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
“I’d like the reading of this book to leave you with the impression that you’ve traversed a sensual nightmare.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I see my books as a body of work, in my opinion, of singular importance and deeply disrespected in a way that… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I write 100% of my material by myself. That's really important to me because I don't want what I'm trying to say… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
My mother told me that at the age of 6 or 7,1 would walk around reading out loud. I would go through… — James Doohan Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a writer from as far back as I can remember. That was my talent. Lord knows… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really,… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
“I make books because I love them as objects; because I want to put the pictures and the words together, because I… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
The book, the idea of a book or the image of a book, is a symbol of learning, of transmitting knowledge.. I… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
“How do you write like tomorrow won’t arrive? How do you write like you need it to survive? How do you write… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
