Writing is something I should have done more of, it's a form of coming home. — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image
I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough. — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I never liked reading books or reading anything - I'm a pictures guy. — Denny Hamlin Copy Share Image
I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline. — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
“People who read are hiders. They hide who they are. People who hide don’t always like who they are.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test… — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect. — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Read! Read something every day. Discipline yourself to a regular schedule of reading. In fifteen minutes a day you can read twenty… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Lauren Kirshner creates a first-person narrator you never stop rooting for. . . . [Where We Have to Go] highlights Kirshner as… — Zoe Whittall Copy Share Image
There were books all over the house, and I was always told that I could write and that it was something good… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
“Everybody in the world ought to care for books, and if there are some who do not, why that is a perfectly… — Willis Johnson Copy Share Image
“[W]e are changed by what we read. Close that book, and you are not the same person anymore. Because of what you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
I am beguiled by your physical beauty, and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I really dislike when people talk about "experimental," because any good writer is experimental. As a writer, you don't know what the… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
I think when I was 7, at school they got us all to write the story of Joseph and his brothers. I… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Give AI the right to perform any task that a human editor normally performs” in the realm of writing. These include drafting,… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
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