I will find any excuse to go into somebody's study or ask them what they are reading. I can't think of too… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“A novel related in a dungeon, in the presence of death, cannot have the same meaning, the same consequences, as it would… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Reading requires a loner's temperament, a high tolerance for silence, and an unhealthy preference for the company of people who are imaginary… — David Samuels Copy Share Image
On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I have just been refining the room in which I sit, yet I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
What I've found over the years working on various projects is, you can have a clever book or clever tagline, but there… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try… — William Landay Copy Share Image
“Many of my friends think I read books all day and alphabetize the shelves. Well, sometimes I do alphabetize shelves. But more… — Jack Canfield Carrie O'Maley Copy Share Image
“Steadily, the room shrank, till the book thief could touch the shelves within a few small steps. She ran the back of… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“You can be told that reading Victor Hugo will sap your will to live, but you can’t understand what that means until… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
I think the most reliable way to teach it is through reading work aloud over and over. Many prose writers been encouraged… — Paul Lisicky Copy Share Image
My first interest in graffitti came when I was in grammar school, around '87 or '88 I was about twelve years old.… — KAWS Copy Share Image
But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I love telling stories, that's it. I love it. That's the word I would choose to describe what I love the most. — Jeff Probst Copy Share Image
“Always write with passion. Think of writing as a way of bringing all your hopes, dreams, and thoughts to life.” — Cherlina Works Copy Share Image
I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly. — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like. Write the kind of story you… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability. — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Some people see writing as a white-collar career, but I've always approached it as a blue-collar writer. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly,… — Ludwig Bemelmans Copy Share Image
My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly - all these make for… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For four days straights, I sit at my typewriter in my bedroom. Twenty of my typed pages, full of slashes and red-circled… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
You ever read an article, and at the bottom, it says, 'Continued on page six'? I'm , 'Not for me. I'm done.' — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Spend too much time alone with your own words, and your writing grows anemic, in dire need of a transfusion. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in… — Billy Burke Copy Share Image
“I started writing to get women, or rather a particular woman, and I continue writing because it’s now a compulsion.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“I thought again what an achievement a book is, a magic box simultaneously holding the presence of the author and the wonders… — Ivan Doig Copy Share Image
Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
I find it very satisfying to write because you can purge many things and vent what you feel under the mask of… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
