I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“Saturdays are for all the reading you can't fit in during the week.” — Hector Cantu Carlos Castellanos Copy Share Image
“Sometimes writing everyday is like pulling teeth, painful, but necessary.” — Wendy Swore Copy Share Image
“From childhood, she had regarded books as the emblems of a secret brotherhood.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Don't close the book when bad things happen in your life! Just turn the page and start a new chapter! — LaToya Jackson Copy Share Image
“Being a writer is something I love to do, plus I get independence. It’s a great job for a woman because she… — Anne Mather Copy Share Image
“The availability of books is not the same as reading them, nor reading the same as understanding them.” — Ian Campbell Ross Copy Share Image
Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them… — Paula Danziger Copy Share Image
“it's good for you to write down your thoughts. It's therapeutic because it forces you to slow down and think about life.” — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
There are many talented and worthy writers engaging horror in new, imaginative, and yes, terrifying ways. — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
Reading and thoughtfulness and openness are the best way, I should think, to begin to address the richness that is in each… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
That's sort of the amazing thing about writing something down and then having it printed and published - it's frozen. It's there.… — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky.… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
I read a lot, very passionately, from the time I was very young, but it was a constant battle; my mother would… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
...a story should be like a roller coaster. That is to say before writing a really cruel scene, I have to lift… — Ryukishi07 Copy Share Image
I'm a very wide reader. I read serious books and I read airplane, forgettable books. I never have fewer than four or… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I was a bookworm. Every week I'd go to the library and get seven books. Remember libraries? I wonder if people still… — Colin Mochrie Copy Share Image
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