The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it. — Carlo Goldoni Copy Share Image
One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Because, you know, evil demon librarians, not so much known for the honesty policy.” — Michelle Knudsen Copy Share Image
If I'm not writing, I'm not fully living. It has become the essential element that defines who I am. — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
I was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother was a… — Vincent Kartheiser Copy Share Image
Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the… — Aimee Carter Copy Share Image
There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction. — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn't get into the mind… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
Life is a series of events strung together like a phrase of a sentence, forever chancing and forever adapting. Turn the page… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How to read writers on writing: With respect, amusement, and skepticism. They will contradict one another-as they should-for each writer brings an… — Donald Murray Copy Share Image
First book was handwritten, then the printing press, now we've got our Kindles. To be able to push a button and a… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Here is a simple recipe to begin with. Get up every morning with the set intention of writing and go to your… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
I think what people really want is fiction that in some tiny way makes their life more meaningful and makes the world… — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
Like no other writer in contemporary American literature, Brock Clarke has a way of looking at us, I mean looking straight at… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
My general approach to writing fiction is that you try to have as few conceptual notions as possible and you just respond… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt. — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings. — Sam Tanenhaus Copy Share Image
“You don't see people getting pulled over by the police for reading ebooks on their smartphones.” — Jason Merkoski Copy Share Image
You can't be a writer and have nothing to write about. You have to have life experiences. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Experience life, pick up a good book and appreciate the moment, for the moment, not the replay.” — Serina Hartwell Copy Share Image
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The best booksellers are like trustworthy pushers: Whatever they're dealing, you take it. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“I have never passed a bookstore without going inside; it's sacrilegious” — Denise Hildreth Copy Share Image
