It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I'd like to find great stories from as many parts of the world as possible. — Nalo Hopkinson Copy Share Image
The most fun thing about being a writer is that everything is interesting. — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
I'd like to get more involved in that world. I'm better when I'm teamed up with an experienced writer - when I… — Jason Biggs Copy Share Image
I definitely don't see myself as an actor. I don't even have it on my passport. I've got 'writer and electrician' on… — John Gordon Sinclair Copy Share Image
“But we're a university! We have to have a library!" said Ridcully. "It adds tone . What sort of people would we… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I would say about 80% of my writing (including posts and blogs), has to do with unresolved anger and that's just fine… — Lori Lesko Copy Share Image
When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Because that’s where I keep my Great Big Book of Manners by Emily Post and I want to beat you with it.” — Susan Bischoff Copy Share Image
“Dare to imagine. Dare to be. Books are the seeds. Dreams are the soil. The fruit of the harvest, a world reborn.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my lifeand, sometimes, to escape it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jane Kindred’s THE HOUSE OF ARKHANGEL'SK dazzles with its surreal blending of worlds. Lost angel Anazakia, last survivor of her murdered family,… — Lynn Flewelling Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I wrote five pages a day, which seemed very doable, I would have an 1,800-page first draft when… — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
We English majors...need to promote public libraries as a tool in the war against terror. How many readers of Edith Wharton have… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“It is absurd, Barthes says, to try to flee from language's assertive nature 'adding to each sentence some little phrase of uncertainty,… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When I write fiction, I struggle to decide the fate of two people created by my mind and spend countless hours to… — Shahla Khan Copy Share Image
I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries... What started… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word "publishing" means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image