I primarily write nonfiction. Research, reflection, and spending time with ideas are important to me. So, this is how I spend most… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
I write a letter to my mother every day, because in that letter, I write down my day. And if I don't… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“The struggle to write continues within me. I aim to write with more depth, clarity, purpose, and substance.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
People send me songs all the time that are literally no-brainer hits... but for me, I'm an artist because I'm a writer. — Kelsea Ballerini Copy Share Image
There wasn't a persona or an attitude that I could reliably write good stuff from.There wasn't a persona or an attitude that… — Andy Daly Copy Share Image
When you are going through something that heavy, for me anyway, I couldn't imagine writing about anything else. I always tend to… — Nicole Atkins Copy Share Image
Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I have books I like very much, but I don't think there are any books that everyone should read. I prefer a… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
I get a little myopic in the act of doing any writing. I think I'm not as interested or not as able… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“I read and read and read with an intensity I’d never really known before. I mean, I’d always considered myself to be… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always… — Sigrid Nunez Copy Share Image
When you read with your child, you show them that reading is important, but you also show them they're important - that… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
“There's some instinctive attraction that draws you, as a writer, to your subject. And the attraction usually has to do with some… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk writing for inspiration to strike. Writing is like… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“..:One writes better when one has suffered the most and when one has prevail. One gets it's inspiration during the process of… — Rafael Garcia Copy Share Image
“ The following year the house was substantially remodeled, and the conservatory removed. As the walls of the now crumbling wall were… — Jamie Fuller Copy Share Image
I was the kid who read a lot and who was academic, and who was more of an indoor person than an… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
“Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as… — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
I first read 'Lord of the Flies' as a teenager. I remember feeling disillusioned afterwards, but not for a second did I… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is characteristic of Dickens who, when he grasps the wrong end of the stick, never fails to belabour everyone in sight… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“But my writing won’t ever reflect the diversity that literature in general should be capable of. You need writers whose lives are… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do. — Charles Clarke Copy Share Image
“My bookcase is all yours." I walked to the door. "I've just decided that those are my favorite five words in the… — Kasie West Copy Share Image
I've had a family my entire adult life; I started raising kids when I was 21. I suspect that being part of… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I'm never more miserable than when I write, and never more happy than having finished and having it sitting in front of… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Book collecting is an obsession, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision. — Barrett Wendell Copy Share Image
“Life has its own chapters and no chapter stays for ever. Move on and enjoy the wonders and face the sorrows of… — Vishnu Kanchan Copy Share Image
I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip.… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other.” — Felisberto Hernandez Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found… — B. J. Novak Copy Share Image
“He wanted to run through the stacks, pick at the books, sample them one after the other, climb the stacks to their… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know. — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
