I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[W]hat is one to say of the writer who lies when he writes that he is lying?” — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share Image
If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
The ability to write clearly and effectively is key to communication, this set of skills enrich one's mental health. Poor written communication… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“I'm tempted to shove one of my romance novels up your ass"- P.J. said sharply "But I love my books too much… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
Being a writer means I sit in a dark (and pretty dank) room off my garage for many hours a day, and… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you… — Esther Freud Copy Share Image
I can't stay engaged for years with a book unless it has feelings. It can't be an idea for me - it… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic Gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies, pan-psychic hallucinations—this is the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Books are smart and brilliant and wise. Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who… — Ray Bradbury 19202012 Copy Share Image
I'm more or less happily writing Chapter Six of The Graveyard Book. I say more or less as I'm at that place… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I even read aloud the part of the novel I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I know when my life is over my writings will live on, perhaps in a story or maybe a sweet love song.… — Terri F. Williams Copy Share Image
The sympathies of a well-adjusted person can easily be aroused by the plight of strangers. Indeed, the skillful writer of a novel,… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living… — John Banville Copy Share Image
I want other kids to see the joy in reading and literacy and how, if you read about things, they become so… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I hate to ask about the title, because it makes it seem like that is all I've read of the book. — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things. — Carly Rae Jepsen Copy Share Image
I was focused as a writer and marketing and a character. I was like Jim Carrey. — Enzo Amore Copy Share Image
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them. — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
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