I'm gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I'm feeling that day. — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sunflowers for Sarita is a fast-paced, high caliber romantic suspense. I couldn't stop reading!” — Mary Alice Monroe Copy Share Image
I was in a crazy, private, awesome bubble again, and that's when I started to write. — Feist Copy Share Image
“Books for general reading always smell badly. The odor of common people hangs about them.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Libraries are congenial places but unfortunately none of us like these places because we hates books and books are leading us to… — Abid Hussain Library Officer Copy Share Image
Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing… — Hillary Carlip Copy Share Image
“At College, you know, we just started automatically writing the kind of essays that got good marks and saying the kind of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I have spent most of my life preferring books to people,” Irene said sharply. “Just because I like a few specific people… — Genevieve Cogman Copy Share Image
If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I cheat on my books a lot, which is not a good thing because it's good to stick with one book and… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“When I’m really entrenched in my writing, I seem to go through mini-writer’s block cycles that usually last a week or so.… — Stephanie Carroll Copy Share Image
“So I stood around that big square of books. Standing around books, even books in a foreign language, you feel a kind… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in puking out all your thoughts in a single sitting and getting some version of the work down,… — Mary H.K. Choi Copy Share Image
“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Do you realize that all great literature — "Moby Dick," "Huckleberry Finn," "A Farewell to Arms," "The Scarlet Letter," "The Red Badge… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We had absolutely no experience in writing kids books and its a very competitive market. But we buy and read a lot… — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
“Reading is not as insignificant as we claim. First we must steal the key to the library. Reading is a provocation, a… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Directing is extrovert and gregarious; writing is isolating, introverted, and lonely. — David Farr Copy Share Image
“I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper and a note-riddled score than I do a real person.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Whatever part of writing that is subconscious is a thing that no one has access to. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other? — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
