“Am I making something worth while? I’m not sure. I write and I sing and I hear words from time to time… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing is just to write. It sounds so simple, but sometimes it's not. You can get so… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Steve Yarbrough is a writer of many gifts, but what makes Safe from the Neighbors such a magnificent achievement is its moral… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
I want kids to think that reading can be just as much fun and more so than TV or video games or… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I'm disciplined about writing. I get up every day knowing I have to produce work. I'm less concerned about other aspects of… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
“there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
People resist and fight against things that are new that they haven't seen before, especially if they make them uncomfortable. But fiction… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
“The situation is even more lopsided with book sales. If I told you that two authors sold a total of a million… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“I think the responsibility of writers is to convey the feelings that exist in the moment, the moment of that sharp and… — Johnny Rico Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have good habits, but I'm very devoted to writing. I'm very compulsive about having a project, at… — Robert Lopez Copy Share Image
“As the childhood leaves a deep mark in a person’s life, there is a strong influence of childhood in choosing the favourite… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
The Prodigal Son story is, I think, the greatest short-story ever written. It has such drama in it, such great characters, it's… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“The faint aroma of gum and calico that hangs about a library is as the fragrance of incense to me. I think… — R K Narayan Copy Share Image
“...books change lives, in big ways and small, from the simple desire to spend a few quiet hours in a comfy chair,… — Roxanne J. Coady Copy Share Image
A high truth, indeed, fairly, finely, and skilfully wrought out, brightening at every step, and crowning the final development of a work… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When you're a writer and something difficult happens to you, one of the things involved in that is this emergence of narrative… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“I have yet to find that one perfect phrase that epitomizes all the mysteries of the universe. Luckily, I doubt to ever… — D.A. Botta Copy Share Image
I ended up at fifty, over-the-hill, thinking I had no future. Finally, I realized that I had allowed myself to write less… — Waldo Salt Copy Share Image
When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“No one ever spoke above a whisper in the staff lounge, but I felt the need to shush her anyway. I gave… — Nick Pageant Copy Share Image
“I enjoyed reading when I was a boy, but these days, I read all the time and it has rather taken the… — Laura Lee Guhrke Copy Share Image
As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It’s who… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
You know what they're writing about Baby you know what they're writing about It's a thing called love down through the ages… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
I enjoy the acting, but I didn't plan on that. It fell into my lap, and I'm having a lot of fun… — David Labrava Copy Share Image
A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“I'm not the same reader when I finish a book as I was when I started, brains are tangles of pathways, and… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
The original idea of blog publishing was that writer and reader would be on the same level. That it would be a… — Nick Denton Copy Share Image
“can think of three other books which are comparable avalanches: Tolstoy’s Resurrection, Victor Serge’s Years Without Pity and Andrei Platanov’s Chevengur. Such… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness… — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“Fiction isn't bad. It is vital. Without commonly accepted stories about things like money, states or corporations, no complex human society can… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“STRASBOURG, October 14—Among the priceless volumes destroyed in the library here, was a full set of ABBOTT'S NAPOLEON histories. They were all… — Various Copy Share Image
since piety has become the fashion at Court, dramatic authors imagine that their pieces would be more welcome if they added in… — Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans Copy Share Image
I know books that are really good and writers that are really good and they have become oppressed and ground down from… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
“Reading, which had been at the heart of my intellectual and emotional existence, was suddenly beyond my grasp. I was used to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“It’s always the end of the world,” said Russell Grandinetti, one of Amazon’s top executives. “You could set your watch on it… — Russell Grandinetti Copy Share Image
“Soon after my husband and I started living together, he learned to make noise before coming into my writing space. He learned… — Marcia Golub Copy Share Image
