There's a danger in romanticizing what it means to be a writer. Because what it really means is hard, hard work. It… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as… — Marjorie Holmes Copy Share Image
“He wants the minute and secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I find 'True Grit' to be one of the very best American novels: It is a rousing adventure story and deeply perceptive… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
The reader knows the writer better than he knows himself; but the writer's physical presence is light from a star that has… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I'm a writer and director, and I like to do that, but for some reason, it's become part of the industry and… — Jean-Marc Vallee Copy Share Image
It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. Im caught up in… — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
“The writer is a secret criminal. How? First because writing tries to undertake the journey toward strange sources of art that are… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
When a librarian really believes that a book is harmful, that its content is contrary to the welfare of the community, or… — Jesse Shera Copy Share Image
It's one of my biggest memories of my father reading. I had pneumonia, remember, but I was a little better now, and… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
“The smell of books is the smell of us all coming together to document, entertain, and explain things for ourselves now and… — Neil Pasricha Copy Share Image
As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“Let me remind you again that when you put a book out there, you are a published author in a space where… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek Copy Share Image
“The story isn't mine to change anymore. Maybe it belonged to me at first, but now it belongs to you. And to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing… — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library. — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Dramatic reading and writing for kids can open a window to individuality and to expression that nothing else does, because all of… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
I learned how to really write when I was in third grade and I fell in love with the secrecy of journalling. — Gracie Abrams Copy Share Image
I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I’m not sure I’ll ever be finished. No matter how much I write, there will always be something I should’ve said. — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid.… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state… — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
“My goal when writing is to engage the reader. Having my words play out like a movie - Rewarding. Having the reader… — Elizabeth Cook-Howard Copy Share Image
I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
“A gripping historical novel . . . heart-stopping, heart-racing and eventually heart-easing.–Library Voice” — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
“If you want to write, start writing now in your own home town and write every day as hard as you can;… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, 'No, I'm just going to write what I feel… — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
Sons of the Dawn is a page-turner, and author Hank Nuwer is to be thanked for enriching our sense of the West… — Gerald Haslam Copy Share Image
“As an author you can move mountains with words, but you need a bulldozer of creativity to find the gold nuggets.” — Natasza Waters Copy Share Image
I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that… — Nathan Lowell Copy Share Image
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
What makes a book unique isn't always about having one big grand new idea. It's about combining many different ideas in new… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
