“I am glad I have found a readership, but one can't write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I'm looking forward… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
I do not know how old I was when the daydreams became more than that, and I decided to write them down,… — Mildred D. Taylor Copy Share Image
This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“(At this point some readers are quite likely to close this book and never open it again … but I hope you… — Brian Zahnd Copy Share Image
More than a building that houses books and data, the library represents a window to a larger world, the place where we've… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write,… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is… — Ernesto Sabato Copy Share Image
I've heard some writers say that they are obsessed with certain ideas and that they find themselves writing around the same obsession… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“A writer must stand on the rock of her self and her judgment or be swept away by the tide or sink… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
I'll borrow words from all my favourite paragraphs, to write about all of these faded things we hope would mean the most… — Mayday Parade Copy Share Image
“You wrote a fucking book. Do you know how many people wish they could do that, or how many people talk about… — Rachel Lynn Solomon Copy Share Image
“Talking about ideas for a novel is a bit like showing pictures of the ultrasound if you're pregnant. Until they're out in… — Clare Boylan Copy Share Image
I've been able to write at least one book a year for 20 years, and I don't think I would've had that… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“All truth is fiction, really, for the teller tells it as he sees it, and it might be different from some other… — Witi Ihimaera Copy Share Image
Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation. — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Life is like a book; Don't jump to the end to see if it's worth it. Just enjoy life and fill the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Always refer your sadness as the end of a page, where you are frustrate to write anything in those last 2-3 lines,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence - no first… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“But you can't teach writing, people tell me. And I say, 'Who the hell are you, God's dean of admissions?” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I wouldn't write any kind of book without a contract and an advance. You can't invest that amount of time and effort… — Harrison Salisbury Copy Share Image
“I haven't written in a week. It's like holding your breath under water. You feel an awful constriction and then the instinct… — D.A. Botta Copy Share Image
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it… — Charles Peguy Copy Share Image
I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“I realize that long hours of reading are not for everyone but I have never ceased to be grateful that they are… — Victor P. Hass Copy Share Image
Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
