Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
You think you're writing the most important book, you think you're writing the most stupid book, and you never really know before… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics.… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional critic, then what point is… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended… — Ken Bruen Copy Share Image
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I want to wake up one morning and know how to write page one, or page 10, or page 250. But I… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
I read individual stories a lot in magazines and other places, too, but I really think there's something to be said for… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
I don't impose any word count or number-of-hours quota on myself, or have any rules, except one: persistence. Nothing glamorous. No epiphanies.… — Pam Muñoz Ryan Copy Share Image
I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
“I want the kids to enjoy reading not only today but for the rest of their lives. I try to do all… — Ron Clark Copy Share Image
“As a nonfiction writer you must get on the plane. If the subject interests you, go after it, even if it's in… — Meg Lukens Noonan Copy Share Image
No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'A Spy in the House', the first of Y. S. Lee's 'The Agency' novels, is pure confection, an historical romp through England… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“That's the thing about writers -on one hand evrything is sacred to them, but, on the other, nothing really is.” — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers. — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“you see book is like a machine if it don't have gas it can't start just like our brain without book we… — Kelly Elysee Copy Share Image
“A good book slowly grabs you by the soul without your knowledge. By the time you’re in tears and laughing at the… — Tom Williams Copy Share Image
I've read your summary." "And?" "It's not incompetent." Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. "Did you… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“No, but I do read a lot. I love to read. I could read for days and never stop. I use to… — Jennifer Loren Copy Share Image
There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I was elated when I found out my first novel, 'Leaving Patrick,' about a woman who walks out on her husband, was… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of writing; the one you write and the one that writes you. The one that writes you is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
“If you still don't like a book after slogging through the first 50 pages, set it aside. If you're more than 50… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
I write when the baby is asleep or when I'm on the road I write a lot... There's always time to do… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
Every single path is so different, but I would definitely say that the idea of what a writer is or should be… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction. — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“About writing:The trick is to make sure you love what you've produced--to Believe..in order to convince.” — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien. — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Everything I write goes through a lot of drafts. A hundred rewrites is not unusual for me to go through - the… — David Berman Copy Share Image
