I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some. — Matthew Macfadyen Copy Share Image
“I have a good many books on hand, but I am sorry to say that as usual I make small progress with… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
When you write for children, don't write for children. Write from the child in you. — Charles Ghigna Copy Share Image
“If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire is not to write” — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“An author is free, even here in hell, if he knows that the literary agent is almighty and that he by himself… — David Duff Tom Fahy Copy Share Image
My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes. — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Everyone brings their own perceptions when reading a book about a real person. At the end they will take away whatever they… — Patricia Montandon Copy Share Image
“There’s something nice about out-and-out children’s books with no sex and a happy ending—Ransome, Streatfeild, that kind of thing.” — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.” — Don Roff Copy Share Image
A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday,… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“A writer is anyone who follows only the truth of who they are, without ever relying on anything other than the poverty… — Christian Bobin Copy Share Image
“Who hath a book Hath friends at hand, And gold and gear At his command; And rich estates, If he but look,… — Wilbur D. Nesbit Copy Share Image
“Voices have been, and always will be, too afraid to speak with as much volume as a book. That’s why writers write—to… — Tarryn Fisher - Mud Vein Copy Share Image
When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
“And to love such a librarian requires a surrendering to her eccentricities, a bowing to her pathological quietness, an obeisance to a… — Jesse Giles Christiansen Copy Share Image
The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
There's this whole post-modern, nuevo beatnik, retro-bohemian thing going on, you know what I mean? You walk into some coffee shops, and… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
“most prized of all, her secretaire, a Napoleon III desk, full of nooks and crannies and pigeonholes,” — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff. — Frank Crane Copy Share Image
“The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, and The Optimist’s Daughter, by Eudora Welty.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children are like a book which we should write in and which we should read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I cannot write if there is a sense of plenitude. I have to hypothesize that there is a loss. — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
There's a lot of 'how to adopt' books, but there's no practical resource for, say, school supplies. — Karamo Brown Copy Share Image
I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through. — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book. — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
