Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it’s going to be okay. — Clare B. Dunkle Copy Share Image
“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is better to re-write than overwriting. Avoiding the repetition is the best. — Biman Gandhi Copy Share Image
Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting. — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness. — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
I want books to give me insight into the way people's brains work and hearts work, and that's what engages me. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Life is like a novel. Many chapters read and forgotten. But there is one I wont forget. Its the chapter I met… — Babloo Copy Share Image
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you'll never discover new materials from new Indie Authors. Who are… — CeDany Copy Share Image
The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Straining the mind, wrinkling the brow, We write, write, write, Without respite Or hope of praise in the future or now.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to… — Finn Wittrock Copy Share Image
Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it… — Francine Mathews Copy Share Image
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“When your story is written on a piece of paper and that paper gets crumpled up and thrown into a shredder, you… — Ker Dukey Copy Share Image
“You should read Wodehouse when you're well and when you're poorly;when you're travelling, and when you're not;when you're feeling clever, and when… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
My mother lived her life through movies and books - she read everything there was to read. And she read to me… — Jerry Weintraub Copy Share Image
“Standing there, I felt almost overwhelmed by the room. It was the ultimate library, heaven for a girl who considered herself a… — Nicole Peeler Copy Share Image
