“I had once read a book that said a traveler should always have one and it made a lot of sense.” — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts. — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
No matter how well a person writes, a successful book is a team effort involving many, many people. — Linda Lael Miller Copy Share Image
“It's funny. Writing is a solitary task, but in order to succeed at it, you need other people.” — Kim Wright Copy Share Image
It didn't occur to me that I could be a writer until college. I saw all these people around me training to… — John Brandon Copy Share Image
While I am writing about the details of my own intimate encounters and journeys in America and the Far East. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The world's a book, writ by the eternal art - Of the great author printed in man's heart, 'Tis falsely printed, though… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
“Remember that with every rejection comes success because it's not in the results, but in the process of learning to write that… — P.B. Azeltine Copy Share Image
Not only do I recommend Wendell Berry to anyone who will talk to me for more than seven seconds, but I buy… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required… — Peter York Copy Share Image
I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Books are attracted to me. They make a beeline for me, and stick to me. I have been so fond of them… — Sergei Eisenstein Copy Share Image
I revise the manuscript till I can't read it any longer, then I get somebody to type it. Then I revise the… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“My head is like some ridiculous barn packed full of stuff I want to write about,” she said. “Images, scenes, snatches of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Do you like Moby Dick ?" he asks. "I hate it," she says. "And I don't say that about many things. Teachers… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending. So… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Many persons erroneously suppose that an author has always on hand an unlimited number of her own books; or that the publisher… — Eliza Leslie Copy Share Image
“The scene is a writer's study, shabby, drafty but tax-deductible. The writer is reading the last hundred pages of his work in… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
