stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical. — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I have a new book coming out, so I do movie, book, movie, book, movie, book, every place we go. — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book. — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
“Writing feels safer somehow. I can catch myself before I say the wrong thing.” — Hillary Frank Copy Share Image
Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I am a big outliner. For my adult book, 'The Visibles,' I did not outline, and it took me two years to… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“I write about pain so you know you're not alone. I've felt it too. I'm releasing it... in hope that you will… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they don't try or give up when their efforts don't lead to a… — Lauren Tarshis Copy Share Image
We've all had that experience where we hear a song that we've liked for many years, and we finally hear what the… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
A writer is obviously at his most natural and relaxed when he writes in the first person. Writing is a personal transaction… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“I don’t need to write. Madness or suicide are other options, though not nearly as compelling. But I want to create; I… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long format, five, eight, 10-minute pieces… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“What we face is not a loss of books but the loss of a world. As in Alexandria after Aristotle’s time, or… — Matthew Battles Copy Share Image
Read a lot. But read as a writer, to see how other writers are doing it. And make your knowledge of literature… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“This means the literary effect is not the main concern here; the author is more concerned with plot. And that plot must… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something-anything-down on paper. A friend… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“Good books to not invite unanimity. They invite discord, mayhem, knife fights, blood feuds.” — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
I love stories. When I tell a story, I try to think of people sitting around a crackling campfire. — Phil Keoghan Copy Share Image
There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
“was boring to think of books as something you should read just because others had, and” — Katarina Bivald Copy Share Image
There's not a single NFL writer in the country who could diagram a play for Bill Belichick. — Colin Cowherd Copy Share Image
I've always found the Write-What-You-Know axiom small and stifling. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
It's just funny that anybody would care at all to take apart the words that I write. It's kind of cool! — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
“There are essentially two things that will make us wiser: the books we read and the people we meet.” — Charles Jones Copy Share Image
“That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Writing is a passion, to write you simply have to just let it flow and get on with it!” — Mark Powell Copy Share Image
