“Don't die with your wisdom and experiences longing to live forever after you are gone: write a book.” — Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana Copy Share Image
If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The business of writing is empathising with situations that aren't your own. — Richard North Patterson Copy Share Image
Any book is a Good Book, and wherever they keep the Good Book safe is also the House a the Lord. — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“We are very fond of books. You can learn nearly everything from them that rabbits can't teach you.” — Alan Snow Copy Share Image
I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know.… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
“All these things Alanna knew from her father's books and maps, but the reality took her breath away as a paragraph written… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I never had a moment of wanting to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress, but writing was just a… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
I want literature to open all the doors that I can't open by myself, and to allow me to see things that… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
The cover, thickness and knowledge in a book often has little value, the secret is to know when to turn the page. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
“Writing is the way I make sense of a chaotic world. I see the tumultuous backdrop of humanity around me, and I… — Leigh Hershkovich Copy Share Image
I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“I would really like to have had the guts and the energy and so on to be able to write about, you… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Fiction -- at least for me -- requires long, relatively uninterrupted time stretches in which to bring it to fruition. I've never… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“Writing! There's nothing like it! Well, you would know! You sit down in a corner. By yourself. With a sheet of paper… — David Burke Copy Share Image
For me, as a writer, I desperately want to be read. I'm very conscious of readers as I'm writing. I think, 'If… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I write constantly, so it flows from one project to the next, and I would edit everything endlessly if I had the… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“On writing: I don't like doing this, but it feels so good when I stop.” — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“WHEN IT MATTERS THE MOST… DON'T PLEAD THE 5TH WHEN YOU'VE BEEN TESTIFYING ALL DAY! SPEAK UP!” — Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier Copy Share Image
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
I've rejected certain books, then gone back later and loved them. — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies. — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer. — Shiloh Fernandez Copy Share Image
For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true. — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along. — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
“Why a librarian?” he asked. “Princesses weren’t in high demand, so I opted for the next best thing.” — Sidney Bristol Copy Share Image
At least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful. — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“Do not write for money nor for fame, if you must write then write to be immortal” — Colin W. Hill Copy Share Image
