“Love or hate my work. I write not to impress. It's just in me to give.” — Anne-Rae Vasquez Copy Share Image
“I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing is like a raft with a slow leak; sometimes it floats, sometimes it doesn't.” — CB Smith Copy Share Image
“My advice is to write during commercial breaks, and read while your favorite TV show is on mute.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing. — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it.” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
You don't know what can happen tomorrow. Life is like a novel, isn't it? It's filled with suspense. You never know what's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
“ A Touch of Crimson will rock readers with a stunning new world, a hot-blooded hero, and a strong, kick-ass heroine. This… — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
“Your job as a writer is to say as truthfully as you can what you see and how you feel. Writing is… — Danelle Morton Copy Share Image
Scholarship cannot do without literature… It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I'm a writer. That's who I am, at my core. I'm a writer, and then I learned production and administration, along the… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
“When I was with him, I felt like a book worth reading all the way through again and again and again. Sure,… — Candice Raquel Lee Copy Share Image
I am a regular, if not exactly enthusiastic, patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some books there… — Will Self Copy Share Image
My writing goal is just this desperation to get as much done as possible. It's never a comfortable, relaxed thing. Especially because… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“Writing a personal essay or memoir addresses how a person thinks and behaves in the context of society’s prevailing moral and ethical… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
