Writing is a journey of discovery because until you start, you never know what will happen, and you can be surprised by… — Mini Grey Copy Share Image
“It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The truth is, my life was made infinitely more difficult because I didn't read any books. But I didn't read any books.… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Under the word refuge , I found this definition: "Small structure high in the mountains where climbers can spend the night." In… — Jacques Poulin Copy Share Image
I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Play my own game. You can read all the books, but you have to listen to your intuition and not do everything… — Jennifer Tilly Copy Share Image
I have only one bit of advice to beginning writers: be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another… — David L. Ulin Copy Share Image
The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster, while writing my… — Dominick Dunne Copy Share Image
“The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I’ll overreach myself once too… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Maybe it's because we as writers are alone so often, are so attuned to listening to the run of our own thoughts,… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think parts of my soul have been saved by my writing, not in the sense of escaping death, but escaping the… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“The problem with being a writer is that it’s not enough to be a writer; one must also be seen to be… — Paul Marlowe Copy Share Image
I am always considering the reader. Although this is admittedly kind of odd: Which reader? On what day? In what mood? For… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“As an author I'm in my head all day and I worry that I lose touch with reality. But then my dog… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
“Books crawl down from the shelves; Read themselves through you; Read themselves at you. - Library of Force ” — John Cale Copy Share Image
“There is nothing to writing. You nourish your creativity for months and years until you release your baby out into the world.” — Lydia Larue Copy Share Image
It's as if I'm setting aside the husband and son, you know, the patriarchal world, for the world of the muse. This… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax,… — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
If I don't write every day for one week or even, frankly, one year, I don't really think too much about that. — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends… — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
“Books are a form of magic—” the doctor lifted the volume he had just laid on the stack, “—because they span time… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
I wasn't entitled to dream so big. The idea of me being a writer wasn't even possible in my mind. Even when… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea… — Jefferson Mays Copy Share Image
I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a writer. Always been very creative. I always laughed at things that the rest of my family… — Bonnie McFarlane Copy Share Image
If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“In the end, all that a writer has to pass on is not myth and anecdote, but scene and character, evoked in… — Will Blythe Copy Share Image
I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“IF you wish to be a writer then don't wait until you write the "great American novel" for they aren't written they… — Shiree Mccarver Copy Share Image
“O quam dulcis vita fuit dum sedabamus in quieti . . . inter liborum copias. : 'Oh how sweet life was when… — Alcuin of York Copy Share Image
Michael Winter’s fiction is a lot like hearing him talk about his life… harrowing in an after-the-fact hilarious way. Full of wonder… — Michael Crummey Copy Share Image
I've realized that with each novel I seem to set out a kind of puzzle for myself. And I am never sure… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
