Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up. — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar. — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“The best thing about being a writer is the joy of creating a story that’s never been told before.” — Rae Copy Share Image
writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible! — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
If you think it's worth writing a book about then that means you suspect that you're not the only one. You suspect… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
“It may be lazy to sit on the couch all day. But if you are reading a book while sitting on the… — Kristin Hansen Copy Share Image
Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane. — Justin Halpern Copy Share Image
... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“What could be more important than inspiring a child to read her first book and giving her the gift of confidence?” — Kathy L. Patrick Copy Share Image
I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
...as parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“writing is a very lonely occupation. You have no colleagues, but your office space is shared with countless horrible little demons of… — Daphne Kapsali Copy Share Image
In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
“Jesse believed stories were the collective memories of the world, recorded in books so that each of us could know who we… — Shaun David Hutchinson Copy Share Image
It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this… — Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
I think kids abandon stories all the time. They start stories and get frustrated or get a different, better idea. I think… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
“If you want to look at a Detroit Free Press published since 2000," the reference librarian said, "you can use a database."… — JoAnna Carl Copy Share Image
“We want splendid books, books that immerse us in the splendor of reality and keep us there; books that prove to us… — Laurence Cossé Copy Share Image
Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense. — Leigh Michaels Copy Share Image
That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Robert Jordan, whether he's writing with passion or not, I don't know. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over. — Eugene Field Copy Share Image
If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“She handles the books tenderly, a glow of utter devotion on here face.” — Kim Church Copy Share Image
I'm really grateful that I could write. But I don't even mind it going on around me. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
