I would sooner read the catalogue of the Army and Navy…

Whoever has tasted the breath of morning knows that the most invigorating and most delightful hours of then day are commonly spent in bed;…

— Robert Southey

“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world.

— Betsy Lerner

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”

— Markus Herz

It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the…

— Elmore Leonard

It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

— Anna Quindlen

At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I…

— Ben Schwartz

If I don't know who I'm writing for, I make it up and pick somebody I'm writing for. That's really the only way to…

— Craig Mazin

“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

— Christopher K. Krebs

Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,…

— Ishmael Reed

I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next…

— Robert Reed

“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

— Kevin Ansbro