Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and… — Breckin Meyer Copy Share Image
Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing. — Peter Hook Copy Share Image
I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Every author these days is an award-winning novelist. Why? Because they set up an award contest and they dub themselves the winner.” — Karen E. Quinones Miller Copy Share Image
“Dear reader, you've never been a character in a novel, especially not a female character created by a man. You don't understand… — Yeng Pway Ngon Copy Share Image
“The best thing about a being a writer is the creative process. I often describe it as a beautiful headache that I… — Nicole Huggins Copy Share Image
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The reason I choose the stories I choose - and it's why it takes me so long to find ideas - is… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was one of those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Writing is a tough business, but never forget the reason why you write. It’s for the love of story telling. Fame and… — R.L. Bartram Copy Share Image
Books smell. Musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer, it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's… — Rupert Giles Copy Share Image
I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about 'petty personal problems' was to… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Forward steps are made by giving up old armor because words are built into you - in the soft typewriter of the… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
After I published my first book, my sister, known as Kali Willows, began writing. She fell as in love with it as… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm going to work… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts. — Theo Van Gogh Copy Share Image
If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
I'm still not sure what pulled me into the career I chose, even though, now, I can't imagine having done anything else.… — Peter Gzowski Copy Share Image
Penelope Fitzgerald's nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
“Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
I have a day job, which means my family isn't dependent on the writing income. So if I have an idea I… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
(about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor! — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
The best I can do is, it's like a 'ding!' You're writing, and then something starts falling into place, and you hear… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
“Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from… — Annie Murphy Paul Copy Share Image
If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Two questions I can't really answer about fiction are 1) where it comes from, and 2) why we need it. But that… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Marvelously entertaining, Gabrielle Donnellys The Little Women Letters evokes the spirit of Louisa May Alcotts Little Women with warmth and affection. I… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
“Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
The really great writers are people like Emily Bront� who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day I went to this place where your memories left footsteps on my skin and the breath… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
