“Living in a house with a large library,” she said, “is a little like living in heaven.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
Some writers pick a topic and write around that, but I like to include it all. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I am a binge reader, with a tendency to throw myself at a writer, immerse myself in their work. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I've learned over the years that the writing is smarter and far larger than the writer and his or her own desires… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
“Books have given me a magic portal to connect with people of the past and the present. I know I shall never… — Lisa Bu Copy Share Image
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says… — Ralph Steadman Copy Share Image
The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
It's impossible to read a distinctive stylist like Faulkner, Joyce, Kafka, Mann, Woolf, James - and many more - without wanting to… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The writer's advantage, in some respects, over those whose expression lies in other fields, is in the privilege of a double -… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
“You must know that feeling when it's raining outside and the heating's on and you lose yourself, utterly, in a book. You… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing.… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Now, many public libraries want to lend e-books, not simply to patrons who come in to download, but to anybody with a… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I try to keep a steady pace with my writing. I have found that super-productive days are usually followed by two and… — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
