There's a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at. — Sidney Lumet Copy Share Image
How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.' — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life. — Cassandra King Copy Share Image
The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning… — Jerome Lawrence Copy Share Image
Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library,… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The only complete reading is that which transforms the book into a simultaneous network of reciprocal relations. — Jean Rousset Copy Share Image
I don't write these stories for the rewards that come back to me. I write them because I have to write them.… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California… — Robert Stack Copy Share Image
“I find books in used-book stores, chain and independent stores, on friends’ shelves and being read by some woman sitting opposite me… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I actually started trying to be a professional writer with novels, and I wrote two that exist and are around... kind of.… — Charles Soule Copy Share Image
Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“True writers know that writing is not something they feel required to do, or to make a living they must do, it… — Milissa R. Bailey Copy Share Image
I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Whether it's a letter, song lyrics, part of a novel, or instructions on how to fix a kitchen sink, it's writing. You… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
My advice for aspiring writers is threefold.First, read as much as possible, both within and outside the genre you arem working in.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The Heretic Queen is historical fiction at its best. Michelle Moran seamlessly incorporates accurate details into a story full of suspense, intrigue,… — Tasha Alexander Copy Share Image
