I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
Yeah, because I think it's more important just to inspire people to wake up one day and pick up a book and… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
I grew up with 'Jane Eyre,' reading it at school, and it's one of those, I think, for a lot of women,… — Sally Hawkins Copy Share Image
“any one who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, with extravagant enthusiasm.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“But there is much that cannot go into books, and that is the loss with which I become increasingly concerned.” — John Williams Copy Share Image
My books are the books that I am, the confused man, the negligent man, the reckless man, the lusty, obscene, boisterous, scrupulous,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes. Granted, most writers I know are a bit strange. Some, downright… — Christopher Hopper Copy Share Image
Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I love to write just about more than anything, but there are times I have to force myself to sit down and… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a… — John Green Copy Share Image
When I was twelve. And I was going through my parents' bookshelves, I found the most wonderful books and plenty of. Within… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“Story, as I understood it by reading Faulkner, Hardy, Cather, and Hemingway, was a powerful and clarifying human invention. The language alone,… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“a wish is a good place to start but then you have to get off your butt and make it happen. You… — Suzanne Selfors Copy Share Image
“I write with the entire alphabet, not just the popular letters. Readers don't want to lose themselves in the text. They want… — Mark R. Trost Copy Share Image
“I think intellectualism can be a barrier to reading. The point of a book - song, film, whatever - is to FEEL… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“I cannot tell you how exciting it is when you first see your book in paperback, then when the good reviews roll… — Sue Stokes Copy Share Image
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
That's the thing about a book: You're in the public life for a little bit, and then you sort of go away… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
“It can be depressing when no one takes interest, and a lack of response makes the writer question why they’re writing at… — Lizz Clements Copy Share Image
“Reading a book, sharing a story, is the most intimate of experiences. It's the closest that I ever come to a Vulcan… — Cathy Maxwell Copy Share Image
One of the things that writers worry about is finding a voice. I don't think it's a thing that you find so… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
“Writing isn't difficult. Writing well is difficult. What is most difficult is being with the interior experience that manifests as resistance to… — H Raven Rose Copy Share Image
I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a… — Foster Friess Copy Share Image
“looked over at John. He had pulled a dozen books off the shelf and looked to be trying to read them all… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
My agent, Jeff Andrews, suggested I write a book. For some reason. he doesn't like it when I'm not doing anything. — Colin Mochrie Copy Share Image
Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book.… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
“She was the kind of shopkeeper who finishes the paragraph she is reading before waiting on the customer.” — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
I always have a notebook - I have kept diaries since I was eight years old. My preferred choice is a Moleskine… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling.” — Grace Bridges Copy Share Image
“Books of value are just like people of value-they try only to elevate others, to help them to rise and to grow.” — Victor J. Banis Copy Share Image
I was writing a book about sustainable energy, and a friend asked me, 'Well, how much energy do you use at home?'… — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
