I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“I spend many hours in conversation with wonderful characters from fantastic books.” — Patti Roberts Copy Share Image
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I've been writing, but I haven't been writing. In my mind I've been saying I want to write, but I haven't actually… — Serena Williams Copy Share Image
“If only life were like a Jules Verne novel, thinks Marie-Laure, and you could page ahead when you most needed to, and… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
“Across the bottom of the last page of many a book is written 'Explicit, Deo Gratias ('Finished, thank god')...Books are kept not… — Joseph Gies Copy Share Image
I'm a reader, so when I go to bookstores I need (stuff) that's going to help me. There a big emptiness there… — Nas Copy Share Image
I think we have a great deal of mythology around writing. We believe that only a few people can really do it.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Good books leave an impression. Great books forever alter the way you think about what it means to be alive. You Disappear… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
“At their core, Tiger Eyes, Forever..., and Sally J. Freeman are all books about teenage issues, but to an adult reader, the… — Jennifer O'Connell Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for every teacher or librarian who reads a book and says, "This is exactly the book that so-and-so needs to… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Nicholson Baker talks about the way in which the most successful nonfiction books are those that can be boiled down into an… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
