I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“Writing to me is a way to get your feelings and ideas out. It is something everybody is capable of.” — Katherine Powers Copy Share Image
I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
A humorist has to be taken seriously before he's considered a real writer. — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
“But then why do we write if not to tackle the fears that others look to us to conquer?” — Joanna Penn Copy Share Image
I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north. — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The best books act like a powerful drug--they take you out of your own head into experiences, emotions and settings a million… — Anonymous-9 Copy Share Image
Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick. — Red Smith Copy Share Image
There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“...he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as… — John Grogan Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the writing flows, sometimes it's like wading through concrete. But I keep showing up each day, whether the Muse joins me… — Bruce Hale Copy Share Image
Don DeLillo's 'White Noise,' which I read when I was 19. It showed me that a book can be funny as hell… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
But a writing project begins not just in doubt but also in faith-that if your passion is genuine, if you have mastered… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
“I suppose I could have been nicer when I was at Columbia. I could have been polite, respectful, turned in my papers… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
What I find is that many times when I work with chance, with indeterminacy, I am more open to experience, less prone… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
“Every so often, a novel comes along to remind us that what we hope is true, is true: that understanding is stronger… — Gary Schmidt Copy Share Image
“A taciturn writer, for instance, might produce only one short poem every ten years, which is unlikely to annoy anyone, whereas someone… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need… — Harry Golden Copy Share Image
