“Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they?” — Alyssa Hubbard Copy Share Image
Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great. — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions. — Nick Blaemire Copy Share Image
The most difficult book I have ever read was a manual on the use of iron bangles by A.J. Thompson. — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it.… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“Every poem that I've created was yours. I thought they were mine, but they were yours. And I wish I could've kept… — Juansen Dizon Copy Share Image
That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
“Needless to say, drink, drugs, food, and sex played no part in the festivities. But who needs any of that when you've… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing. — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
I'm foldin' ya'll, probably headin' for the pin/pen like bowlin' balls kept it corrected at the pen/pin and wrote, rolled it for… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Various random experiments, cut-ups, fold-ins, juxtapositions, timed writings of other kinds, the "objects assignment" which involves dream, adventure, ancestry. Writing outside, writing… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“As the reputation of books is raised not by their freedom from defect, but the greatness of their beauties, so should that… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
An astonishing debut. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully written, Stuart Neville’s THE TWELVE is both a heart-pounding thriller and a stunning examination of responsibility… — Jeff Abbott Copy Share Image
I guess I think I'm writing for people who are smarter than I am, because then I'll be doing something that's worth… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a… — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
Pleasure reading has long been an American ideal - generations of schoolchildren have headed home for the summer toting recreational reading lists.… — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
My goal is just to continue to find mediums to tell stories that I think need to be told. — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it. — David Crosby Copy Share Image
I'm a realist about who really reads books and who acts like they read books. — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
The best vacation is still a book, a renewable ticket to places real and imaginary. — Charles McGrath Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place. — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
