I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write. — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body--her life. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Writing my books I enjoy. It is the thinking them out that is apt to blot the sunshine from my life.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“A book is the best of friends, it never shuts you out, but always lets you in.” — CThain Copy Share Image
Even when I cannot write, I know I am still a writer, just the way I know I am still sexual even… — Olga Broumas Copy Share Image
In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“Books allow a person to think outside of the box. They allow reflections and contemplation. So read them while thinking is still… — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
I won't even try to predict the specifics, but I think the ebook - as a medium - could be a game-changer. — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
“We are also creatures of romance. Books love to portray us as the mysterious visitor in the night that you invite into… — Isabelle Rowan Copy Share Image
It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
For me, a trans writer, Knausgaard taught me about writing shame as liberation from it - a literary version of the kind… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
“I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade school in… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Without Leskov there would be no Bulgakov, no Chekhov, but also no Garca Mrquez and Julio Cortzar. . . . Leskov is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed,… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“Anyway, back to the crush. Sorry to shift gears so fast, but we both know why we're here. I mean, if I… — Lani Diane Rich Copy Share Image
“Tell him I said that he will know when he's my age that books aren't written on whims or old promises. Books… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“Never give up. The same manuscript may appeal to one agent and not to another. It's a matter of taste, and it's… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland, there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit and talent... Yet,… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
I caution writers all the time to slow down and pay more attention to the work in front of them than to… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
“Writer’s block, I just drove around it four times. All my favorite writers live there.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.” — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
If you're going to abridge a book in the author's own words, you can't go sticking your own in. — William Goldman Copy Share Image
“Every time I step into this library I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.” — Marie de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Anything I wrote before the age of 17 is probably worth putting a pin in and moving on. — Lewis Capaldi Copy Share Image
Are a table of contents? because you are the topic in every page of my life. — Marianepublico Copy Share Image
You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through. — Jim Mattis Copy Share Image
“Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort.” — Amaya Ellman Copy Share Image
“To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late! — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
