“My interest in books started as a child. I had a voracious appetite for reading. It’s my mom’s fault really, because she… — Catherine Cruzan Copy Share Image
“Since I picked up my first book, I have been reading about amazing discoveries, intrepid explorers, and fantastic creatures, all while scarcely… — William Ritter Copy Share Image
No matter how beautiful the paper, artwork, printing, and binding, I'm seldom drawn to a book unless it's by a writer I… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind;… — Margaret Walker Copy Share Image
Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I tend to write from a personal place, and most of the time when I'm writing by myself, it's coming from something… — Aubrie Sellers Copy Share Image
“time. Take a lot of it at the beginning of the writing process. I’m not talking about hours or even days. I’m… — John Truby Copy Share Image
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that… — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
“Novel writing, I soon discovered, is like channel swimming: a slow and steady stroke over a long distance in a cold, dark… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It is an awesome tragedy in this life that, when asking what a person is and they reply doctor or lawyer or… — D.A. Botta Copy Share Image
“Only now, years after having read though the works of Shakespeare, Dickens, Scott, Poe, Balzac did he realise that even the most… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
I always give books. And I always ask for books. I think you should reward people sexually for getting you books. Don't… — John Waters Copy Share Image
Children have limited power to shape their own lives, but when they can experiment with possibilities through books, their optimism can be… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions. — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to… — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
“Writing is a lot like sex: at first you do it because you enjoy it. Then you find yourself doing it with… — Michael J. Goulding Copy Share Image
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“Now I know how people can live without books, without college. (...)and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“We don't hold with book-reading," Mr. Wormwood said. "You can't make a living from sitting on your fanny and reading story-books.” — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“I can’t write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“You—and I’ll venture every third writer in Europe nowadays—fancies himself a poet, when all you’re doing is building little towers of words… — Therese Anne Fowler Copy Share Image
I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked… — Rabindranath Maharaj Copy Share Image
I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The greatest books in Russian literature are satires. Gogol's Dead Souls, for example, is a very over-the-top satire about life in Russia.… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently.… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but… — Marco Arment Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
After Ive sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take… — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
“Well, if you want to be a writer, you’re going to have to start letting people read your stuff, you know.” — Kellie McAllen Copy Share Image
The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“True life life at last discovered and illuminated the only life therefore really lived that life is literature.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Books are better friends than people at times. They do not threaten you, unless that feeling means you're anticipating the next event. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
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