“The more characters you have, the bigger the book, the more flaming chain saws.” — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“There's a difference between a book being too expensive and a customer being too cheap.” — Shaun Bythell Copy Share Image
“If you are writing and no-one reads it, are you a writer, or you just writing?” — Matt Drabble Copy Share Image
“You—and I’ll venture every third writer in Europe nowadays—fancies himself a poet, when all you’re doing is building little towers of words… — Therese Anne Fowler Copy Share Image
I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked… — Rabindranath Maharaj Copy Share Image
The greatest books in Russian literature are satires. Gogol's Dead Souls, for example, is a very over-the-top satire about life in Russia.… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
After Ive sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take… — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
“Well, if you want to be a writer, you’re going to have to start letting people read your stuff, you know.” — Kellie McAllen Copy Share Image
One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but… — Marco Arment Copy Share Image
Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently.… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The great thing about fiction is that I don't have to settle on an answer to any troubling question, or even a… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If you read one hour per day in your field, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
I never really thought I'd be successful. I never though I'd get books published, but this was something completely beyond me. The… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I guess of all those novels, Don DeLillo's Falling Man is the one I like the best. I thought there were some… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing,… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I'm not really great at writing things down unless for a roast or a particular event. — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
Every now and then, you find a book that feels like it was keyed to your DNA. — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
My identity is based around being a writer. I can't not write. It's a compulsion. — Mike Cernovich Copy Share Image
Fitting people with books is about as difficult as fitting them with shoes. — Sylvia Beach Copy Share Image
Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I hate to ask about the title, because it makes it seem like that is all I've read of the book. — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I was focused as a writer and marketing and a character. I was like Jim Carrey. — Enzo Amore Copy Share Image
Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things. — Carly Rae Jepsen Copy Share Image
I was 40 years old before I became an overnight success, and I'd been publishing for 20 years. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
