Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the only thing that helps when I'm feeling despairing about writing is to write. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“Writing is losing focus and winning it back, only to lose it once more.” — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures. — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I must have read three-quarters of 'Anna Karenina' on my phone. Which might be a record. — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
I often write two books simultaneously. Usually one of them starts out as a fun experiment designed to give me a daily… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“If the ink of my writing morphed into ants, would they march along with my thoughts? Would they find my work as… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“If a person reads a good book—they become permanently changed. They can’t even help it. They can’t unlearn what they’ve learned. It… — Loretta Lost Copy Share Image
Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you. — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“The job of the writer isn't to answer questions. The job of the writer is to ask the questions for which there… — Jens Porup Copy Share Image
“I have built a city from the books I've read. A good book sings a a timeless music that is heard in… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
It's the stuff that happens right in front of your face when there's no routine and everything is unexpected. That's what I… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
“See what happens to the souls and outcome of a molesting priest, suicide bomber, deadly gang leader, rapist serial killer in the… — William Depaol Copy Share Image
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days… — Amy Ray Copy Share Image
Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“Should you care to write (and only the saints know why you should) you must needs have knowledge and art and magic… — Kahil Gibran Copy Share Image
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in… — John Green Copy Share Image
“There's one thing your writing must have to be any good at all. It must have you. Your soul, your self, your… — Elizabeth Ayres Copy Share Image
