Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's also true, however, that having conquered the regional writer ghetto, I am now intent on conquering the nationalist writer ghetto and… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
“she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you take 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' as books, one is written for children, and one is an… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“When you read a book, the story definitely happens inside your head. When you listen, it seems to happen in a little… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“His apartment is small and filled with books from the toilet tank to the top of the fridge. I think he has… — Jennifer Lynch Copy Share Image
'California Bones' is the first volume in my trilogy about Daniel Blackland, a wizard trying to survive in a world that eats… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
“Andras Riedlmayer described a colleague who survived the siege of Sarajevo. In the winter, the scholar and his wife ran out of… — Matthew Battles Copy Share Image
Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Writers often like to talk about how intuitive the writing process is, but in truth, building a book is a remarkably unintuitive… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
You honor your writing space by recovering, if you are an addict. You honor your writing space by becoming an anxiety expert,… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
A book is something that young readers can experience on their own time. They decide when to turn the page. They'll put… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
“People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
“How many books on manifesting will you buy before your realize that all you have manifested is a bunch of useless books?… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
I have to re-write a lot. I couldn't tell you how many drafts I write, but I know I've done at least… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
Using pseudonyms was such a part of the early feminist movement. We didn't want to have this star system. We wanted attention… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading. — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
When I began to read as an adult, my first big enthusiasm was Evelyn Waugh. I read almost exclusively novelists of a… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Life is like a novel and every day is a new page. so if a page is sad next will b happy..… — Thought Of The Day Copy Share Image
I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success,… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
A lot of young writers are very precious about their words. Don't be - you've got to be ready to burn stuff.… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
“Since when does reading suck? Who says that? If I ran the world, people who didn’t read would be the first to… — Skyla Madi Copy Share Image
I'm the corner street storytelling guy. I'm the guy in the garage that the neighbors come over to talk to and I… — Jim Breuer Copy Share Image
“What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“After writing, there is the letting go part. Perfection is a myth; as we all get better by day. Allow yourself to… — Uma Nnenna Copy Share Image
There are skills you pick up on in a clinical environment in terms of how to ask questions, what to look for,… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm really trying to focus on the storytelling, more so than ever before I think, partly because it makes for easier pages. — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn't be novelists. I think story-telling… — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
“Keep your nose in a book – and keep other people's noses out of which books you choose to stick your nose into!” — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
A computer does not smell ... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
Books showed me there were possibilities in life, that there were actually people like me living in a world I could not… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
