“The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When I do actual sequential work, I really want a story I can get a behind: a story that really holds my… — Brian Stelfreeze Copy Share Image
I've never signed a contract, so never have a deadline. A deadline's an unnerving thing. I just finish a book, and if… — Marchette Chute Copy Share Image
I like to start with the first chapter, end with chapter 40. No flashbacks, nothing fancy, just a direct storytelling. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the… — Jean De La Bruyere Copy Share Image
Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to take English lessons and… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I'm a bookworm. I know with my physical appearance that I don't look like the typical reader. I'm in Barnes & Noble… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
“When I first came to London I became a Life Member of the London Library. London life was costly, but I felt… — Jane Ellen Harrison Copy Share Image
I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The first five years as a writer, I didn't know how to write at all. I couldn't write my way out of… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
“Redwing had read somewhere that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what was the best training for a… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“My husband claims I have an unhealthy obsession with secondhand bookshops. That I spend too much time daydreaming altogether. But either you… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
“I Love Books. I love that moment when you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
I love Dave Eggers. I hate Dave Eggers. If I could become any other living writer, I would answer faster than anyone… — James Bernard Frost Copy Share Image
My life in general, orderly or not, it allows me more freedom in my own writing. Sometimes I wonder, though - I… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
“We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction. — Rod McKuen Copy Share Image
I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block. — David Liss Copy Share Image
What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
'Talking Peace' is one of the few books from childhood that I still keep prominently displayed on my bookshelf. — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
“Our goal is not to finish a book, or merely to talk about a book, but to use our books to grow… — Tony Reinke Copy Share Image
They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
But then, that's the beauty of writing stories-each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“Few industries have had their death foretold more frequently than the book publishing industry, and yet somehow, miraculously, it seems to have… — John B. Thompson Copy Share Image
And those moments that I find mind busting. Meaning like there's a word that I find in a weird place. I love… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I grew up with another pretty darn good writer: Glenn Frey of the Eagles. We were very good friends, and we kind… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
Were I to write what I know, the book would be too sensational to print, but were I to write what I… — Ina Coolbrith Copy Share Image
“A writer is just like anyone else, he cannot know everything, nor can he experience everything, he must ask and imagine,” — José Saramago Copy Share Image
People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence. — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
