One of my favorite rules of writing: stop whenever it's feeling really good so you have something to look forward to the… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.” — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“In the days when I didn't know people were reading and judging me, I wrote serenely, as if eating bliny; now I… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“The less he sees of other writers the more of a writer he will ultimately become. When he sees scarcely anyone except… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much. — Peter Sotos Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names.… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“My best advice about writer’s block is: the reason you’re having a hard time writing is because of a conflict between the… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
I write both at home and at coffee shops, and I have a terrible work ethic - I have a tendency to… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
“I would browse for half an hour or so in the secondhand bookstores in the neighborhood. Owning my own 'library' was my only… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I've always said "Writer's Block" is a myth. There is no such thing as writer's block, only writers trying to force something… — Julie Ann Dawson Copy Share Image
“Lately, even the Waybacklist borrowers seem to be missing. Have they Been seduced by some other book club on the other side… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Real writers-that is, capital W Writers-rarely make much money. Their biggest reward is the occasional reader's response… Commentators-in-print voicing big fat opinions-you… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
All reading was done in the early years out loud, there was no such thing as silent reading because you had to… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
As a young man just beginning to publish some short fiction in the t&a magazines, I was fairly optimistic about my chances… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful,… — John Lescroart Copy Share Image
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles. — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
It's the feeling of being lifted out of my life into another world that is the thrill of writing fiction. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both continents… — William Henry Channing Copy Share Image
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
You are at some point exposed to a wonderful story, and you really want to know what happens next, so you learn… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“i write because if i did not, i would surely go mad. but perhaps being a little bit mad is why i… — Drunk-On-Writing Copy Share Image
“ If there is a subject that is my own, my dear Ellen, as a writer I mean, it is the persistent… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Writing is something Ive always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to… — Finn Wittrock Copy Share Image
“My books already threatened to take over my part of the room and keep on going . . . whatever cargoes of… — Ivan Doig Copy Share Image
No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
“If you cannot read all your books... let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.” — Jane Davis Copy Share Image
I make non-fiction partly because I'm not that good of a writer. My talent, if I have any, is in balancing, capturing… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Books can look dangerous or precious, depending on which side you're looking from, from office or from the streets.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I try to keep up with what’s being done in every field, and most children’s books are ten times more enjoyable than… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I will go so far as to say that the writer who is not scared is happily unaware of the remote and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Actually the writer is the most important part of the filmmaking process. That's why I never hesitate in giving credit to a… — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
