Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
“A good book slowly grabs you by the soul without your knowledge. By the time you’re in tears and laughing at the… — Tom Williams Copy Share Image
“No, but I do read a lot. I love to read. I could read for days and never stop. I use to… — Jennifer Loren Copy Share Image
I've read your summary." "And?" "It's not incompetent." Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. "Did you… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“That's the thing about writers -on one hand evrything is sacred to them, but, on the other, nothing really is.” — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
“It began to falter not when the book publishers who loved books gave way to those who preferred profits to reading. It… — Al Silverman Copy Share Image
The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you've done everything extremely well.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks.… — Mary Garden Copy Share Image
“Fiction may be about lying – on the surface, anyway – but fiction is about hiding the truth behind those lies. It's… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
I must speak the truth, even at the risk of being ostracized by my fellow scribblers. In fact, anticipating their rage, I… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
I think that writers often try too hard in the name of expression, when often it's just a matter of reframing what's… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Novels were not arguments; a story worked, or it didn't, on its own merits. What did it matter if a detail was… — John Irving Copy Share Image
For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers. — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
“you see book is like a machine if it don't have gas it can't start just like our brain without book we… — Kelly Elysee Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of writing; the one you write and the one that writes you. The one that writes you is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I was elated when I found out my first novel, 'Leaving Patrick,' about a woman who walks out on her husband, was… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction. — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
“If you still don't like a book after slogging through the first 50 pages, set it aside. If you're more than 50… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
I write when the baby is asleep or when I'm on the road I write a lot... There's always time to do… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
Every single path is so different, but I would definitely say that the idea of what a writer is or should be… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
I honestly turned to writing because I didn't know what else to do, and because a friend had gently suggested it. — Emily Susan Rapp Copy Share Image
I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you're a writer there will come at least one morning in your life when you wake up and want to kill… — Bernice Rubens Copy Share Image
Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien. — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
“About writing:The trick is to make sure you love what you've produced--to Believe..in order to convince.” — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Everything I write goes through a lot of drafts. A hundred rewrites is not unusual for me to go through - the… — David Berman Copy Share Image
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
