I am still surprised when I walk into a bookstore and see my name on a book's binder. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation. — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down. — Mark Plotkin Copy Share Image
I certainly don't condemn anyone who listens to audiobooks. It seems to me that any way we get good literature in our… — John Larroquette Copy Share Image
I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
When I read Doctor Sleep, when it was first published, I was so taken with getting to spend time with Danny Torrance… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
Being in a room with other people's energy yields such a different result. I love writing by myself still, but there's something… — Ingrid Michaelson Copy Share Image
If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
A good edit process turns rocks into diamonds, and every author should love that part as much as the creative phase. I… — Kim Smith Copy Share Image
It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
People might ask me, What do you propose instead? I propose nothing. I am a mere novelist, I just write about the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
This is a gift that God has given me. I'm not smart enough to write for everybody, but it's the love in… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
A lot of readers ask me, "Do you ever get emotional while writing the book?" or "Did you cry when you killed… — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
I think the purveyors of e-books are only too happy for this atmosphere of 'everything belongs to everybody' to increase because it… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and… — Timothy Egan Copy Share Image
“Good friends, good books and ability to sleep peacefully is good life.” — Nitya Prakash Copy Share Image
One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it at need. — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
Selling an idea to a publisher is not as valuable as selling your audience to a publisher. — Sarah Cooper Copy Share Image
I'm entirely of the mindset that when it comes to books, they've got to be paper. — Akira Toriyama Copy Share Image
I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul. — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
Most good essays are conversations with yourself - not just your decided thoughts but your dilemmas. — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me. — Kat Edmonson Copy Share Image
“Nope. I'm just going to a bookstore,' Gemma replied. 'How dangerous could that be?” — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
“Screw write what you know, write what you dream and then do your research :) ~Pavarti K Tyler~” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Pulverized by literature,' thought Miss Laburnum. 'The ideal way for a librarian to die.” — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight. — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
When I have a problem, I write it down and ask St Joseph to sleep on it — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
