The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation. — D. T. Max Copy Share Image
The books that have helped me most are the ones I reacted to, not just read — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I find novels compose my mind. Do you read novels too? - Reverend Finch's wife” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Writing is not just the technical act of your fingers on the keyboard. Writing is living. — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
“Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think,… — David Bowker Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“I smile as I walk toward her and nearly trip on a stack of haphazardly organized books. Why don't I eve put… — Defiance by C.J. Redwine Logan Copy Share Image
One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We're only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be… — J.A. Konrath Copy Share Image
Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books? — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I don't think there is ever objective biography. Our vision of our subject is always shaped by who we are. So I… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
I think writing is really a process of communication. . . . It's the sense of being in contact with people who… — Sherley Anne Williams Copy Share Image
“She quickly realized she had an affinity for the older books and their muted scents of past dinners and foreign countries, the… — Erica Bauermeister Copy Share Image
When I sit down at the typewriter, I write. Someone once asked me if I had a fixed routine before I start,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Someday it will dawn on man that woman does not read the wonderful books with which he has filled his libraries, and… — Esther Vilar Copy Share Image
“the art of reading is slowly dying, that it’s an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
My general writing preface is to write an outline and then ignore about half of it, both on a micro level with… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“Books are portals for the imagination, whether one is reading or writing, and unless one is keeping a private journal, writing something… — PJ O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Reading is accumulating knowledge. But not only that. Reading offers us every day what religion promises us for a posthumous and improbable… — Camilo Gomes Jr Copy Share Image
You have to be true to your instinctive way of writing. You have to find your identity. — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books. — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I've always read voraciously since I was a kid and for me, there's no snobbery around books. — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
“Writing is not a hobby. Collecting stamps or coins is a hobby. Writing is a calling.” — Barbara Abercrombie Copy Share Image
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
