I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
“I don’t see books. I see doors into other worlds. Windows into minds. The life of man spinning beyond time.” — Ryan Winfield Copy Share Image
...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
This is our goal as writers, I think; to help others have this sense of--please forgive me--wonder, of seeing things anew, things… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I'm reading Elena Ferrante's 'Neapolitan' novels. They are amazing. I feel like she gets the entire experience of being a woman. — Konkona Sen Sharma Copy Share Image
“The importance not just of history, but of roots - that a writer must have then to nurture, to remember if he… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I find it incredible and outrageous that public and school libraries are being forced to close - we'll all pay the price… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
“People are often dismissive of librarians and libraries…But isn't that where the best stories are kept? Hidden away on the library bookshelves,… — Justine Picardie Copy Share Image
The chief reason I shove the reader inside the body - or more specifically, the chief reason I try to get the… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I'm entranced by Amanda Lovelace's work. She wrote two wonderful books, 'The Princess Saves Herself in This One' and 'The Witch Doesn't… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
I’ve always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%.… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they're private jokes that are… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“The bookstore itself was cozy but not crowded, with posters of classic novels framed and hung on the walls. And it was… — Shaun David Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“[…]when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
There are loads of novels that I really love, like Haruki Murakami's books, and when I read them, I do think about… — Makoto Shinkai Copy Share Image
“Literature is a wound from which flows the indispensable divorce between words and things. All our blood can flow out of that… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I find writing extraordinarily difficult and not very pleasurable, though I find having done it very pleasurable. I won't lie about that. — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
When I came to New York as a writer, I was taken with the idea that you're only getting in on bridges… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
I am a writer - that is what I am before being a performer or musician. I love waking up in the… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
“If I ran the world, people who didn’t read would be the first to go. Boom. Put them out of their misery.” — Skyla Madi Copy Share Image
“I used to capture the vastness and the immensity of the world and confine it to the limited pages of the parchment.” — Hark Herald Sarmiento Copy Share Image
I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer, and the younger I… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
So goddamn easy to write this, You make it spill on the page. So drunk on yourself, self-righteous, The laughing stock of… — Lamb Of God Copy Share Image
It's funny, I'd rather be known as a writer who crafted a really nice piece about women's friendships over time. But that… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
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“If any of my readers could get a tenth of the enjoyment in reading my books as I do in writing them,… — P.L. Byers Copy Share Image
To hone my voice, I read everything, from books to cereal boxes, three times: once for fun, the second time to learn… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
From my experience, the only thing you can do is take what's written on the page and try, through your own curiosity… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The only way to be a novelist, to think that you can create something others will give themselves up to for a… — Nicola Griffith Copy Share Image
Children will come out and listen to a writer whose books they like. They don't need a government agency or a medal… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
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