There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice. — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Whether you're an actor, producer, writer, or director, it's all about the story you're going to tell. — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true. — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
I think books find their way to you when you need them. Whenever I feel like I'm not going to live to… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go there, and… — Joe Sacco Copy Share Image
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
It's funny to think about the uncanny reflexively, as an author who is perhaps gradually becoming aware of my own hidden secrets.… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular… — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are. — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
“Want to get your kids to read more? Try making books easily accessible. Put them where kids can easily reach and don't… — Melanie Kirk Copy Share Image
“Benefiting from peak times to read They are the times when the brain is in its full activity and attentiveness. The daily… — Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi Copy Share Image
“Writing for the sake of writing, writing that draws its credibility from its very existence, is a foreign idea to most Americans.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“For a writer, I'm not sure that feeling of knowing you've just written something good and strong can be trumped. Not because… — Cara Rosalie Olsen Copy Share Image
Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
