Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I've always loved to read. But sometimes I go for a year without reading, because I forget to. — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“I never have any clue what my next book is going to be about, when the time comes, the book starts pouring… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Stop beating yourself up over all the days you didn’t work on your story. Focus on what you can do today. Sit… — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
I think The Nightingale is my best, most mature, most moving novel, but maybe that's just because I love these characters. I… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Once you write a book, you hand it over to the readers, and it's their book then. They're so involved. They ask… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
“Writers are a strange breed. After all, we hear voices in our heads all the time, and sometimes, we even talk to… — Stevie J. Cole Copy Share Image
I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Some people are writers and don't ever want to be on camera, some people act and not write - I like writing… — Adam Conover Copy Share Image
When you have a book out, it's like a period of protracted or concentrated megalomania, and it's really not normal or good… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I think every writer of detective fiction writing today has been influenced by Mr. Parker. I'm of a generation that followed Robert… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
“The shelves covered all four walls of the square room, broken in three places by tall, narrow windows with stained-glass inserts above… — Susanna Kearsley Copy Share Image
“Maybe it would be easier if we were allowed to yell? The public librarian has been typecast. We're supposed to whisper and… — Annie Spence Copy Share Image
A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I don't believe in "writer's block". I try and deal with getting stuck by having more than one thing to work on… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“A person whom works exclusively for money places a price tag on his or her soul. A person whom labors to attain… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Heartache may be bad for the soul, but it's great for bookshops. It's when we are at our lowest romantic ebb that… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
