“Creativity...passion...sweat...heartbreak...inspiration...and lots of hard work...that is what books are made of!” — Tara Fairfield Copy Share Image
“If I believed people who told me you can't make a living as a writer, I wouldn't be making a living as… — William Meikle Copy Share Image
The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
My parents were all about education. My mother was a librarian - she retired after 30 years - and she made sure… — Courtney B. Vance Copy Share Image
“Libraries—like train stations, crossroads, church belfries, and attics—are places where worlds leak together, where the Management, in its ineffable wisdom, tends not… — Daniel Polansky Copy Share Image
A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were… — Quentin Bell Copy Share Image
I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writing students that… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
Are You Seeing Me? is written powerfully with both the heart and the head, and neither gives an inch. It's funny, moving… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
Every day, I learn something new. I think one of the most exciting things for a writer is to work on a… — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in a novel is time. You've got [a line like] "two weeks later, he woke up with a headache,"… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“I would give a hundred Hemingways for one Stendhal or one Benjamin Constant. And I regret the influence of this literature on… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing, is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you… — Larry L. King Copy Share Image
When you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are writers, and there are readers who want something more. They want to get at the grist of life. — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
Perhaps I'm just too painstaking a type of person, but I can't grasp much of anything without putting down my thoughts in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
I write in Arabic and prefer writing my stories by hand. I need a cup of tea or coffee when I write.… — Osama Alomar Copy Share Image
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
My writing habits are pretty static. I get up every morning between 6 and 7 am, grab a cup of coffee, say… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I was always interested in writing from an early age, but it seemed so far away and inconceivable, like wanting to be… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
“Guards are of no use in a library. Oh, how wrong he was! Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do. — Frank Spotnitz Copy Share Image
Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I write about all the horrible things that can happen to kids as a way of keeping those things from happening to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“Literature is the original Internet – every footnote, every citation, every allusion is essentially a hyperlink to another text, to another mind.” — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
“Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
![“The hardest thing in a novel is time. You've got [a line like] "two weeks later, he woke up with a headache," and you've got to add up that entire two weeks and what the date is and whether it works. That kind of stuff drives me crazy and if I don't have it exactly right, I can't move forward…” quote by T.C. Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/e6e/t-c-boyle-8108_add_the-hardest-thing-in-a-novel-is-time-you_81637.png)
![“What I hope is that the book [Bink & Gollie] delights children. What I hope is that they laugh and laugh and laugh, just as we did when we wrote them.” quote by Kate DiCamillo](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/370/kate-dicamillo-599_book_what-i-hope-is-that-the-book-bink-gollie_1084324.png)
