Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
“As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction. — Robert Boswell Copy Share Image
Of course I always like going to bookstores, but at stores, you're mostly meeting kids who are already into reading. — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I just have this feeling that if it weren't for the Gloversville Free Library that I probably would not be a writer. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
As a writer, you look for someplace to start. Once you have a beginning and you've written the first two sentences, nothing… — Ronee Blakley Copy Share Image
I tend to overuse the word "project" only because "book" is terrifying while I'm still in the middle of something. A project… — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
My grandmother had a Ph.D in library science, so I grew up in a library, and I would appreciate those books and… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Every time I sit down and write, I'm like, 'This is a miserable experience. What a life I've made for myself. Why… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
“It's this way, see--when a writer first starts out, he gets a big kick from the stuff he does, and the reader… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“But for Juniper, the very best thing about the study was the smell. She reveled in the delightful scent wafting through the… — M.P. Kozlowsky Copy Share Image
“The Book Lover:- See how I have come up in the World, because of my books. I pull the covers agape, pages… — Catriona Malan Copy Share Image
There's so many different kinds of rights to consider these days: computer, e-book, all sorts of things. Forget foreign rights and entertainment… — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
I think I learned discipline on 'Jane Eyre.' Charlotte Bronte's dialogue, the intellectual duel between Rochester and Jane Eyre's character, is so… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammer. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
“The good news about self publishing is you get to do everything yourself. The bad news about self publishing is you get… — Lori Lesko Copy Share Image
“Somewhere there must be women reading books, and talking of chicken rissoles to their cooks … (from,‘Somewhere in England’)” — Virginia Graham Copy Share Image
“You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one feeling threatened by the truth to the writer.” — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make… — Nicole Christie Copy Share Image
“I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art,… — K Lee Lerner Copy Share Image
Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four… — John Barth Copy Share Image
“I spend some time every week in independent bookshops all over the country and what I see is inspiring!” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
My writing, such as it is, grows out of my sense of discolation, I mean, dislocation. Having lost my place, I write… — Gustavo Perez Firmat Copy Share Image
“See, that's the beauty of books. We get to take what we want out of them and it can be different for… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
I'm always reading. I have four books on my nightstand right now. The same is true with writing, I tend to work… — Colette Freedman Copy Share Image
It looked the sort of book described in library catalogues as 'slightly foxed,' although it would be more honest to admit that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Naturally, I've always felt more like a writer myself, and I've always written. I have people who are writers who've been promoting… — Craig Bierko Copy Share Image
“Remember some books are meant to be tasted, some books are meant to be chewed and, finally, some books are meant to… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
“You will never know the purpose of a book in your life until you read it, and you will never know which… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“I have never read anything quite like Mark Haddon's funny and agonizingly honest book, or encountered a narrator more vivid and memorable.… — arthur golden Copy Share Image
Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I long ago ran out of bookshelf space and so, like a museum with its art, simply rotate my books from the… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
