“I'm a librarian, i'm a librarian and I like it quiet So, the pages can be heard I'm a librarian, i'm a… — Jonathan Rundman Copy Share Image
I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would love to continue to tell stories that are constructive to our society; I would love to continue to portray characters… — Kiana Madeira Copy Share Image
“Two people at a cocktail party. One turns to the other and says: "I'm writing a novel." The other replies, "Neither am… — Private Eye Copy Share Image
“For a moment I was distracted. Books always did that to me... I liked the creamy pages, the smell of ink, all… — Elizabeth C. Bunce Copy Share Image
There are different types of readers. People draw lines at which three things intersect: the character, the author, and the reader. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
Some of my best moments have been in friends' libraries. They give you a sense of quiet, well-being and order that a… — David Linley Copy Share Image
Many years ago, when I was just about as complete a failure as one can become, I began to spend a good… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within us… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There are writers you admire, for the skill or the art, for the inventiveness or for the professionalism of a career well… — James D. Houston Copy Share Image
A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story. — Isaac Babel Copy Share Image
I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside. — Barry Mann Copy Share Image
Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never… — Pamela Hansford Johnson Copy Share Image
“Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants.” — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
People who give an unconditional credit to the work of original thinker, writer and doer, deserve an equal plaudit. — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
There are definitely parts of me in most of the protagonists I write, but I find a bit of distance can be… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
“Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.'… — Patti Digh Copy Share Image
Writing the perfect paper is a lot like a military operation. It takes discipline, foresight, research, strategy, and, if done right, ends… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“I know the names of the books - their old covers bleached to palest greens or pinks by the endless cycle of… — Harriet Lane Copy Share Image
“Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.” — Ann Marie Aguilar Copy Share Image
Debut novels are difficult because nobody knows you... they just don't find a huge audience, because that's how the market works. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
What do I do when writing isn't going well? Well, I don't write - which is symptom, cure, and cause. And then… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I've been an entrepreneur, a writer, a food correspondent. I might have been an architect - but I'm bad at maths. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I have sought for happiness everywhere, but I have found it nowhere except in a little corner with a little book. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
I think precision in writing goes hand in hand with not trying to say everything. You try and say two-thirds, so the… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“I’ve written for the waste basket so often that we’ve become friends. He writes too, but it’s mostly garbage.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
“That is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why there can never be enough silence around one when… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
