A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Each word... each paragraph... each page I write gets me one step closer to my dream.” — Elizabeth Paradise Copy Share Image
Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them. — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Children have limited power to shape their own lives, but when they can experiment with possibilities through books, their optimism can be… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
An autobiography should give the reader opportunity to point out the author's follies and misconceptions. — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I tend to write from a personal place, and most of the time when I'm writing by myself, it's coming from something… — Aubrie Sellers Copy Share Image
I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Writing is a lot like sex: at first you do it because you enjoy it. Then you find yourself doing it with… — Michael J. Goulding Copy Share Image
Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of "somedays." Plant your… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“These friends - and he laid his hand on some of the books - have been good friends to me, and for… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
[My mom] is quite the strict editor. I feel like maybe she has more of the old-school editing style, which really works… — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises.… — Kealan Patrick Burke Copy Share Image
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I started typing diary in, I don't know, 1978 or '79, but then the computer changed that a lot. Because with the… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“For knowledge to be digested, it must be absorbed with relish," wrote Anatole France.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling. — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
“The record store was a place of escape. It was a library and a clubhouse” - Cameron Crowe quoted” — Gary Calamar Copy Share Image
After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. It's always a little bittersweet, too. — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“I always wanted to write a book that ended with the word Mayonnaise.” — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them! — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
“Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“People certainly will love what you write, when you represent them in your words.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
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