These are the kinds of stories I'm really interested in telling: bad stories about bad people, I'm comfortable with. — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
“The great thing is to be always reading but never to get bored -- treat it not like work, more as a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Let the novelists fret about consistency - story writers should feel free to jam; to get things right in new, surprising ways… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me. — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“After all, nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Librarians are trained to be polite, patient, and helpful, no matter who stands across the reference desk.The most important thing is that… — Robert Dawson Copy Share Image
“Wandering aimlessly, I love the thrill of unknown paths. Am I a nomad? Am I a wanderer? May be I am a… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“for the most part, I rarely look at the journals I have kept for the greater part of a lifetime. The act… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Books suggest the inner light and the method of bringing that out, but we can only understand them when we have earned… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I’m just thinking that would be pleasant. To be reading, say, out of a book, and you to come up and touch… — Jamie O'Neill Copy Share Image
“I tried to lose myself in books. Our house is packed with them, and we keep adding more. Like my mother, I… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the… — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper. — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
When you read something, and especially when you're reading compellingly great, that becomes part of your identity, at least while you're reading… — David Ferry Copy Share Image
Writers should take advantage of their surroundings, if only to trigger memories that juice their writing. — Kirby Wright Copy Share Image
“Reading felt like a daytime dream in a secret land. Nobody but I knew how to get there, and nobody but I… — Lawrence Hill Copy Share Image
I don't know if kids still read it, I just know that for me - as a boarding school kid - the… — Parker Stevenson Copy Share Image
I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When young writers approach me for advice, I remind them, as gently as I can, that they are on their own, with… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to… — Irving Wallace Copy Share Image
I believe there's a platonic ideal for every book that is written, like there's the perfect version of the book somewhere in… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
What I've learned is that you get better at writing by writing, and that 'youthful energy' will only get you so far. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
I know you're supposed to hide your influences, but I suppose I see writing as riffing, really, about whatever you have been… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the… — John Hill Burton Copy Share Image
Instead of taking a year off, I started 'Dreamers of the Day' exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for 'A… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thought: 'This… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“Because nook people are turned on by and twig how terribly normal it is to drop out of life occasionally.” — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I try to write every day until the book is done, but the exact process depends on the story and its structure.… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
If bread be what you seek O little mice, Go to some other shelf is my advice; But if upon my books… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Every so often, when I am feeling plucky, I try to write a screenplay that combines all 10 of Americans' top phobias… — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
