Though I carry enough electronics to get nervous in a lightning storm, I love paper and I always have a Moleskine journal… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
“In books there were limitless worlds, there was truth, sometimes brutal and ugly, and sometimes happy and soothing.” — Héctor Tobar Copy Share Image
When I'm fishing, I feel guilty that I'm not writing, and when I'm writing, I feel guilty that I'm not fishing. But… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
I dreamed of becoming a writer. And this dream is about to become a reality with the publication of my first, and… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational. — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“November, a dark, rainy Tuesday afternoon. This is my ideal time to be in a bookstore. The shortened light of the afternoon… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of,… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My books are a subject of much discussion. They pour from shelves onto tables, chairs and the floor, and Chaz observes that… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I've never gone through the paces that writing textbooks sometimes recommend, such as writing out a character's biography, or determining what his… — Teddy Wayne Copy Share Image
“Helen makes a mental note to pick up a self help book the next time she was out. This was getting ridiculous.” — Solange nicole Copy Share Image
“reading a book, or remembering something I heard on the radio last week, or admiring the flowers on the table, I am… — Geoffrey Durham Copy Share Image
“Hmm. I wonder if you got stuck somewhere in the last twenty pages, because you’re the first one to complain that this… — Cris Tovani Copy Share Image
I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
My ideal reader is somebody who trips over a copy of my book on the sidewalk; then they pick it up and… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
“We know that reading changes the way we think. Among other things, it helps us formulate thoughts that are more abstract, categorical,… — The Penguin Press Copy Share Image
Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“You know the feeling that a great writer gives you: my spirit has been fed and refreshed; it has partaken of something… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
“one writerly habit was describing everything I did, no matter how absorbing or how trivial, as if I were standing outside myself… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
True literature should rouse the reader, unsettle him, change his view of the world, give him a resolute push over the cliff… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
I like to smell a book before I start it. I fold over the pages, write comments in the margins, leave it… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
“You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I write for three or four hours and then hopefully I'll have something. Then I draw for the rest of the afternoon...… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
It's not my job to critique the writing. I'm there to serve it. I had to figure out a way to make… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I had never written anything. And I had never studied writing. So my motives were pure: I had a great story... a… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something,… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
When I started 'City of Bones,' I knew exactly what was going to happen in 'City of Glass.' When I first started… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter. — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
“You can read as many books as you like, but if you don't adapt what you ready, you will never get there” — Alexander Novicov Copy Share Image
Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of… — Bob Hartley Copy Share Image
