If I had to write down everything I've done in my entire life, I'll begin with writing all my sorrows in sand… — Chee Vai Tang Copy Share Image
“children were still young of inventing and telling orally, sometimes of writing down, ‘children’s stories’ for their private amusement… The Hobbit was… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“I love books. I love that moment when I open one and sink into it. I can escape from the world, into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Of course the moment I saw the books, I was overcome with pleasure. This always happens with me. I feel foolishly safe… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
“Is it crazy to say that I sometimes don't understand what I write but I write it anyway, because maybe someone, somewhere,… — Nema Al-Araby Copy Share Image
It's a sort of philosophy you cook up for yourself. You probably write things the same as everybody else, but it's your… — Jim Capaldi Copy Share Image
The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is… — Ismail Kadaré Copy Share Image
The Prodigal Son story is, I think, the greatest short-story ever written. It has such drama in it, such great characters, it's… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“The situation is even more lopsided with book sales. If I told you that two authors sold a total of a million… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
People resist and fight against things that are new that they haven't seen before, especially if they make them uncomfortable. But fiction… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
“As the childhood leaves a deep mark in a person’s life, there is a strong influence of childhood in choosing the favourite… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have good habits, but I'm very devoted to writing. I'm very compulsive about having a project, at… — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
“I think the responsibility of writers is to convey the feelings that exist in the moment, the moment of that sharp and… — Johnny Rico Copy Share Image
Steve Yarbrough is a writer of many gifts, but what makes Safe from the Neighbors such a magnificent achievement is its moral… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
I'm disciplined about writing. I get up every day knowing I have to produce work. I'm less concerned about other aspects of… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“The banal advice of writ in teachers is "write what you know," but the truth is, you don't know a place until… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
“I wanted to hide away and write. I wanted to meet characters who would climb up my pen. I wanted to create… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new… — Luisa Valenzuela Copy Share Image
The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity. — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
I love it, I hate it, it's ecstasy when I'm writing well, it's despair when I'm not. I wouldn't wish this life… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I cannot go on… All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
How lucky am I? Quite often I speak at book festivals, and people ask me how I got published. There's people who… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'm supposed to follow, or the Fantasy Police… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's what writers do- Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.” — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live us many more… — S.I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Is it hot in the rolling mill? Are the hours long? Is $15 a day not enough? Then escape is easy. Simply… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“What makes a writer successful is not money or fame (though both are nice) ... it's that in being true to her… — Miyoko Hikiji Copy Share Image
I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“I suspect that the real attraction was a large library of fine books, which was left to dust and spiders since Uncle… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Brilliant, hard-earned and honest. The erasures and reappearances of figure and ground-that hard drama-have rarely been so movingly undertaken. A heartbreakingly beautiful… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
