I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world. — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.' — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I haven't written adult fiction, but I do not sugarcoat grief - or what I expect grief to be. — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
Writing is a conversation, to me. The best kind. You can't get interrupted. — Gerald Asher Copy Share Image
Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.) — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes one must choose between turning the pages and move on and closing the book for a better future — Mercy Pheona Copy Share Image
One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Writing a book is the most terrifying thing that I've ever done. It's so much harder than writing for television because it… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
“(in which, along with Montaigne, we raise the question of whether a book you have read and completely forgotten, and which you… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
If you are anything like me --- Clever, fond of goat cheese, and devilishly handsome --- then you have undoubtedly read many… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice… — Stanley Ellin Copy Share Image
“♔ Writing is my passion. I never want to let it go. It may be short, Fan-Fiction or purely my own work.… — BritHoran Copy Share Image
“Dewey Hall was the only building on campus not made of brick, and the tornado came for it in absolute maturity, no… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
Not counting 'Small Steps,' I think 'Holes' is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story… — Louis Sachar 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
“I didn’t have anyone, but every time I walked through those doors I felt like each of those authors was my family… — J.L. Mac Copy Share Image
It's weird - I don't feel like I'm a better or more confident writer because I'm publishing something. I think, for most… — James M. Gavin Copy Share Image
No one stays true. It's like an addiction cuz ain't no one real...it's all fiction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The reading of great books awaken and brightens the light of my soul.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense… It's insanity by definition. — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
“It is far more seemly to have thy Studie full of Bookes, than thy Purse full of money. ” — John Lyly Copy Share Image
One of finest evocations of life in Western America in recent memory... Powerful and profoundly moving. — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
“literature can very well describe the absurd, but it should never become absurd itself” — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
If I was going to do Fall Out Boy, I wanted it to be a real outlet for my writing. — Joe Trohman Copy Share Image
The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“All my best writing was written before 1982, and then a significant event happened to me: I was born.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it. — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
