Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
You're writing your life as you go - the question becomes, how do you want to write your life? — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
“I've never yet run out of ideas what to write about... only out of time to write it in.” — Rayne Hall Copy Share Image
I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and… — Jill Hennessy Copy Share Image
I think it's easy to get a book in a bookstore. I think it's just damn near impossible to get a book… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
I always want to try to bring something fresh to every book. It's getting harder instead of easier. I feel like I… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Readers are of two sorts: one who goes carefully through a book, and the other who as carefully lets the book go… — Douglas Jerrold Copy Share Image
As for how I feel about any success I've had, I just feel extremely lucky. Writing is a tough racket, and there… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You… — P.B. Kerr Copy Share Image
When I feel I'm going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I go through stages with all kinds of stuff. There'll be a couple of months where I'm reading, you know, like, fiction… — Syd Copy Share Image
There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a… — Patricia Wentworth Copy Share Image
I've never really worked out this thought, and I don't know if I'm really conscious of it, but I can see there's… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
So, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer's career and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The kind of true-life writing that is fun to read - that makes an ally of the reader - is the kind… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
Every now and then, someone will tell me that one of my books has made them laugh out loud. I never believe… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
What I would really love to happen to me would be if I came upon an idea that would keep me busy… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I am not a psychological novelist, and I try very hard not to allow the reader to see the plight or circumstances… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
I'm pretty tight - I rewrite, in some cases, 70 to 80 times before I show it to people. — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“the book takes rank with those books which are bits of life rather than products of art.” — Richard Henry Dana Jr Copy Share Image
If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I've done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
