“Never ask a writer what they are writing while they are writing, unless you’re prepared for sharp teeth, fangs and blood on… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can‚Äôt think of… — Roberto Bola√±o Copy Share Image
“Of course, I tried to surround myself with other people like me whose dream of writing was a constant burden…” — Gerard Olson Copy Share Image
What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?"… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if… — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the writer has to learn the hard way of creating a bad work to become a best-seller yet doesn't surrender to… — Millicent Ashby Copy Share Image
Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes, and a brutal deep-frozen landscape all prove beyond a reasonable doubt that cold nurtures good and evil… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
“Library? That sounded reasonable. As my thoughts revolved around my days surrounded by books, something miraculous happened. My anger subsided. It ebbed… — Rebecca Maizel Copy Share Image
“Hope knew that her thinking regarding books went contrary to the general sentiment of the people of Eden. Books were seen as… — David Bergen Copy Share Image
“ My friend Isabel says, When you’re writing even a short novel, with at least a couple of subplots, and God only… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
“A stout, middle-aged man, with enormous owl-eyed spectacles, was sitting somewhat drunk on the edge of a great table, staring with unsteady… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“A book isn't a single, static thing with one unarguable meaning. Each reader who comes to it brings his own special knowledge,… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
“It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all - we… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
I am sometimes asked to name my favourite books. The list changes, depending on my mood, the year, tricks played by memory.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“The necessity of saying something, the perplexity of having nothing to say, and a desire of being witty, are three circumstances which… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Because you're a crime writer you're asked to have a point of view on a lot of things, and I'm uncomfortable having… — Asa Larsson Copy Share Image
I have the foundation to write, and then I go back and do research, and some of that might influence the recrafting… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile." "A what?" asked Eragon. "One who loves books," explained Jeod. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
I don't use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can't read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I have to agree that most people in America read a kind of a fiction which is not of a high literary… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
I never allowed writer's block to be a reality. I framed it up for myself early on. I said, 'OK, if I'm… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
“My mother saw in 'Gone With the Wind' the text of liberating herself, ... She took 'Gone With the Wind' as the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Successes are those highlights of life we look back on with a smile. But it's the day to day grind of getting… — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the twenty-four in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
I don't want to sound pretentious or meta or anything, but I don't write until it comes to me... People know when… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
I like to write, I like to reflect, and not just poetry, I like to write my thoughts down. I think it's… — J. J. Redick Copy Share Image
A writer just speaks from his heart, mind and soul. They are the conscience keepers of the society. They are the keepers… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
