The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting. — Saul Kripke Copy Share Image
“Rook is reading the bulletin intently, like she’s studying for a test. God, I love her.” — J.A. Huss Copy Share Image
“People need books for a better life. Books are a way of self-nurturing.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
“In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Both of them are obvious dwellers in the valley of the shadow of books.” — George Gissing Copy Share Image
It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“And a second thank you to my genius editor, Julian Pavia, who pushed me as hard as I’ve ever been pushed and… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
I always wrote about myself in the third person. I knew how to promote myself so it sounded intelligent. I know how… — Lisa Lampanelli Copy Share Image
I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
You know that gap between where you are and where you'd like to be? Within that gap, there is an ache and… — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image
No writer can be the 'Master of the Words' without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Some people just need to read and think, to spend time alone sorting through the stories in their heads” — Ronald T. Potter-Efron Copy Share Image
Music and books were my inspiration too. I read avidly as a kid. And that's the beautiful thing about books and music… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
“You know that frustrating feeling of losing the page in your book? You didn't want to go too far ahead and spoil… — Rebecca Raisin Copy Share Image
“One of the many things I love about bound books is their sheer physicality. Electronic books live out of sight and out… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Her salvation was the novels she read. On nights she thought it might br better not to be alive w/o Levi in… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I'm sort of a pressure writer. If somebody says, "Stan, write something," and I have to have it by tomorrow morning, I'll… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“I actually like to sort books. I divide them into categories, line them up in order, sometimes flipping through one that catches… — Dojyomaru Copy Share Image
“Perspective was my secret weapon, and books gave me plenty of ammunition.” — Ian McNulty Copy Share Image
One Best Book Is Equal To Hundred Good Friends.. But One Best Friend Is More Than A Library — Anwar Saicha Copy Share Image
Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
A book cannot easily be too bad for the general public, but may easily be too good. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.” — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
