I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness—when a glorious idea comes to mind, and when a last page has been written and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I realized how wonderful YA is and how I really wanted to write something that created that level of intrigue. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants… — James Goodnight Copy Share Image
I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There are some places you love with your heart, and there are some places that you love with your mind- the places… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wonder how I’d tell this if I didn’t have so many books rattling around inside me. The truth is both… — Julie Buntin Copy Share Image
I must speak the truth, even at the risk of being ostracized by my fellow scribblers. In fact, anticipating their rage, I… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
“Fiction may be about lying – on the surface, anyway – but fiction is about hiding the truth behind those lies. It's… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
“few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible, I write till the… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“Novels were not arguments; a story worked, or it didn't, on its own merits. What did it matter if a detail was… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me. Books saved me. So, I do believe through… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
“I never knew why or how writing could be so important until I learned about the no-talking rule and found that writing… — Karol Jackowski Copy Share Image
You are currently experiencing desire; otherwise, you wouldn't be reading these words. Even if you are reading them at the behest of… — William Braxton Irvine Copy Share Image
I don't get on with novelists, don't enjoy their company. Once you've worked for a publisher, you understand the species, see them… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The more we get away from believing and studying literature, the worst we become, the more we lose our soul. — Shane Warren Jones Copy Share Image
I think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“As a general rule, librarians are a kick in the pants socially, often full of good humor, progressive, and, naturally, well read” — Bill Hall Copy Share Image
I don't have to mumble something under my breath when someone asks me what I do anymore. I can just say, definitively,… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life. — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it. — Feist Copy Share Image
I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
I found a book in my elementary school library when I was ten called 'All about You' which was a book on… — Steven Gundry Copy Share Image
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Real science is the greatest, most exciting springboard I have available to me as a writer, and I don't feel the least… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
When you want to read the book, come read the book. When you want to come talk to me and be my… — Lil B Copy Share Image
“I had a dream about you last night. I was writing a ‘Sex for dummies-Christians That Secretly What to be Porn Stars-… — Crystal Hudson Copy Share Image
“I enjoyed the freedom they gave me—to write about almost any damned thing that came into my mind, whether it was crime,… — Norbert Davis Copy Share Image
I have always loved reading. Ever since I was a young girl I had a book by my bed and would get… — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
“... physical bookstores will become ever-nicer places to be. They are going to have more sofas, better lattes, nicer people working there.… — Richard Brandt Copy Share Image
You know, writing isn't easy. It's tedious. Ideas have a gestation period, and after a while, it becomes difficult. — Rajiv Menon Copy Share Image
“A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It’s the ‘everyday’ experiences we encounter along the journey to who we wanna be that will define who we are when we… — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
