I love carrying feelings, it brings out the best in my writings !! — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write. — Gary Panter Copy Share Image
“My book isn't meant to be read all at once, but rather all in good time” — Justin Bienvenue Copy Share Image
For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime. — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Books are the spiritual and intellectual food of the mind, and reading is a great enjoyment for those who desire to improve… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many of us write because we are readers and have grown up in a long tradition, and we want to be able… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
“Books have a smell, for instance. One that gets better—more nostalgic—as the years go by. Does this gadget of yours have a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Writing is like bungee jumping for the soul...you take a deep breath, plunge into the abyss and hope the rope tethering you… — Judy Croome Copy Share Image
“What does literature do better than anything else? It provides a detailed representation of the inner experience of being alive in a… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Everything is a burned book, my dear maestro. Music, the tenth dimension, the fourth dimension, cradles, the production of bullets and rifles,… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Librarians are more important than ever before ... are uniquely qualified to help all of us separate the digital wheat from the… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
I've been in so many writing workshops where someone hands in a story, and when the other writers in the workshop are… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once -- I've been working on three different novels. When I… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“It's not a silly pursuit to read beyond what's handed to you, to seek out new voices and leap over the usual… — Nova Ren Suma Copy Share Image
You've got to give kids really beautiful children's books in order to turn them into revolutionaries. Because if they see these beautiful… — Tony Millionaire Copy Share Image
“It seems as if I can only thing if I write my journal, it just connects the part of my head that… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
“For twenty years I have sat alone at a desk tinkering with sentences and then sending them out, and for most of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
“The other option was to go to the public library. Few people came back from a visit to the library. There was… — Joseph Fink Copy Share Image
He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“the end of the book isn’t the last page, it’s the last day you think about what you read” — Dave Campbell Copy Share Image
Irene Nemirovsky was a prolific writer punctiliously devoted to her craft. — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
I sometimes wonder if I would have become a writer if what happened to my father hadn't happened. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story. -Terry Pratchett” — Anna Blondell Copy Share Image
A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good. — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
“Bullets aren't going to better the world, but books can, and will.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it. — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
