Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read. — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books. Each body has a story to tell...” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
I try my best to not just avoid cliches but to write with some meaning. — Amanda Shires Copy Share Image
A writer is seldom satisfied with the condition he finds himself in. We're all given to fretting a lot. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I don't write a synopsis, I don't write a treatment. I write scene by scene. — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing. — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
Life is like a book you cant get any further untill you turn the next page to see what the future holds — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book. — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
She had the kids during the day and I would have them at night. That way they were never alone. I would… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
“A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I like each of my books to be different. Once I've done something I like to move on and push myself to… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
People are falling in love with characters now, and that is why writers are creating such stories. I am really happy that… — Rajkummar Rao Copy Share Image
Generally, I find that when you're writing and having fun with the writing, that energy and dynamism is going to come out… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write… — Patrick Duffy Copy Share Image
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“There is a deeper, more profound reason for this craving for acceptance and glory. Put simply, it's because all writers are fat… — Chancery Stone Copy Share Image
There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“She'd opened the front cover and fallen inside the wonderful, frightening, magical illustrations. She'd wondered what it must feel like to escape… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Now you may have gotten the impression that there are absolutely no uses for Librarians. I'm sorry if I implied that. Librarians… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Turning the pages of this encoded codex, I realize that the books I love most are like open cities, with all sorts… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image