I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation. — Tara Bray Smith Copy Share Image
In order to be a writer, first you must become an alive dead spirit. — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
If I had to pick, I'd say my favorite book is 'A Prayer For Owen Meany', by John Irving. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I learned to write from authors. I didn't know any, but I read their books. — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint. — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“If I had to choose between a wall of paintings and a wall of books, I would certainly choose books. When you… — Timothy Mauson Copy Share Image
It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife… — Ismail Merchant Copy Share Image
When I was 14 years old, I was crazy about Dr. Seuss. I loved the words he made up, and I just… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
It is a lot harder to write a good book or a good column in a persuasive way without making fun of… — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of… — Monica Dickens Copy Share Image
Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, until they have seen and lived at least… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The best part of being a writer for me is immersing myself in a fictional world, which is the opposite of being… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
My dad had this outlook: It doesn't matter what I want to read - reading was a good thing. So whatever I… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or, as it were, fondle them—peer into them, let them fall… — William R. Manchester Copy Share Image
I graduated from college December of 2017 and looking ahead and thinking about potentially starting a book, I just kept getting hung… — Kyle Carpenter Copy Share Image
“From then on, Matilda would visit the library only once a week in order to take out new books and return the… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“If [literature] should turn into pure propaganda or pure entertainment, society will slip back into the sty of the immediate -- which… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate. — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
“If you have to, cut back on other things. But always fill your life with books.” — Manoj Arora Copy Share Image
Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right. — Zoe Cassavetes Copy Share Image
“In life you only get what you put in, the same is true for reading.” — Carmela Dutra Copy Share Image
I don't really like questions about the writing process, because the truth is I don't know how I write. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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