Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
See, what I don't like listening to is when writers go, 'And then the person cries.' 'Or the person does this.' It's… — Kim Coates Copy Share Image
How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“I love ebooks. I love the idea of storing books in “The Cloud”, because honestly, reading and rainy days go together like… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Anonymity usually arouses a great interest and curiosity but on the background of extraordinary style of writing mixed with brilliant humour the… — Kotlesya Copy Share Image
“I always return home to the same few authors. And, no matter how many times I return, I always find they have… — Charles Chu Copy Share Image
“He who would be a writer, fine, Must take a deal of pains, Must criticize his every line, And mix his ink… — Platt Rogers Spencer Copy Share Image
“You don’t look like the librarians I remember,” he told her. “We’ve changed. There was a whole press release issued about it,… — Susan Mallery Copy Share Image
My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy… — A. Edward Newton Copy Share Image
“Don't give in to doubt. Never be discouraged if your first draft isn't what you thought it would be. Given skill and… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
“i loved the freedom writers diary and even though i only read it because my teacher made us i loved the book.… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Yorick's Used and Rare Books had a small storefront on Channing but a deep interior shaded by tall bookcases crammed with history,… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“The real writer, the fellow who sends planets spinning and models a man asleep and eagerly tampers with the sleeper's rib, that… — Nabokov Vladimir Copy Share Image
Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with,… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
He asked Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know I suppose I love them… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so… — Elle Macpherson Copy Share Image
“I am addicted to reading, I will never reach the end of my TBR list because it multiplies all by itself. It… — Lani Copy Share Image
“Consciously or unconsciously, the reader is dissatisfied with being told only what is not; the reader wishes to be told what is...… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
“Every writer in the history of the world has been afraid to put words on the page. But we only remember those… — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Agenda-driven novelists don’t often want to bother learning the craft of fiction. They’re just dipping into fiction long enough to disguise their… — Jeff Gerke Copy Share Image
“Writers (of supernatural fiction), who used to strive for awe and achieve fear, now strive for fear and achieve only disgust.” — David Aylward Copy Share Image
All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“A good editor is like tinsel to a Christmas Tree...they add the perfect amount of sparkle without being gaudy.” — Bobbi Romans Copy Share Image
I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package,… — Ellen Raskin Copy Share Image
Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
“We have fiction mimicking truth, and truth mimicking fiction. We have a dangerous overlap, a dangerous blur. And in all probability it… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing ... I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in… — Chad Kroeger Copy Share Image
Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Writing is 90% procrastination. It is a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I would like to be writing more because people are constantly asking me questions, and I write down what they are asking… — Eartha Kitt Copy Share Image
