I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Certain bookworms eat books. Eat them, swear in them, spill things on them. — Tara Bray Smith Copy Share Image
I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day. — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
Good writing is formed partly through plan and partly through accident. — Ken Macrorie Copy Share Image
Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts. — Peter Bichsel Copy Share Image
“They scribble on notepads, the sound of their pens scratching the judgemental air.” — Emma Cameron Copy Share Image
As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers. — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
“When a day goes by and I haven't written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about.” — P.S. Bartlett Copy Share Image
My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“They say 90% of the promotion of a book comes through word of mouth. But you've somehow got to get your book… — Claudia Osmond Copy Share Image
That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Research shows that when we read words on paper, it reduces our stress levels by nearly 70 percent. We also read more… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
I remember that the single most vicious letter I ever read was the letter Hemingway wrote Scribners when they asked him to… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think the secret to success is a short-term outlook. So for example, I'm writing the next Killing book now and I… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I make very involved drawings, even little structures, and try using design to figure out the rhythm of a plot. If there… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The way 'The Icarus Girl' came about was by me just basically bragging it with a literary agent and telling him I'd… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
The word 'creative' refers simply to the use of literary craft in presenting nonfiction—that is, factually accurate prose about real people and… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
I used to feel for years and years and years that I was very remiss not to have written a novel and… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I know that when I think of myself as being utterly worn out, when I think that somehow I have nothing more… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard. — James J. Corbett Copy Share Image
“The Writer and Poet is excusable only if he is Successful. Makes Money.” Within” — Linda Wagner-Martin Copy Share Image
A writer's inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day. — Pierre Beaumarchais Copy Share Image
Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Just because you're an avid reader doesn't mean you're an avid understander. — Alec Sulkin Copy Share Image
I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future. — Kathy Mattea Copy Share Image
“Everyone has a book inside them, it's just a matter of getting it out” — S. P. Foster Copy Share Image
Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
