“Do not write for money nor for fame, if you must write then write to be immortal” — Colin W. Hill Copy Share Image
At least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful. — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“Why a librarian?” he asked. “Princesses weren’t in high demand, so I opted for the next best thing.” — Sidney Bristol Copy Share Image
Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along. — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For 'The Big Wander,' I probably had ten different outlines before I made myself start writing. I would sleep on each one,… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations.… — Jacqueline Susann Copy Share Image
There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Good writing is really meaningful, and it's one of the - it's still one of the best tools we have to get… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
When a librarian really believes that a book is harmful, that its content is contrary to the welfare of the community, or… — Jesse Shera Copy Share Image
It's one of my biggest memories of my father reading. I had pneumonia, remember, but I was a little better now, and… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
“The smell of books is the smell of us all coming together to document, entertain, and explain things for ourselves now and… — Neil Pasricha Copy Share Image
As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I think I was always writing books that had very clear scenic structures. I do tend to write in scenes. I do… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
My mother was terribly invasive, all in the name of psychiatric honesty. It was a bad thing in some ways, but I… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“we cannot escape showing who we are. What we write and how we express it gives away as much information as our… — Susan Feehan Copy Share Image
If it is wisdom you're after, you're going to spend a lot of time on your ass reading. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
When I was writing in Bulgarian, I could hide behind beautiful prose. — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“One thing I will surely miss is that I couldn't read all the good books in this lifetime.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Reading a great work of literature can truly be likened to having a conversation with a great mind.” — Jennie Chancey Copy Share Image
I never stopped loving the deeper sciences, and I read as deeply into lay science as I can. — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
To rehearse imaginary conversations on paper is called literature. To do so out loud is called madness. — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
“When a person gives you a book to read, he's asking you to look into his soul.” — Suzanne Morrison Copy Share Image
Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods. — John Updike Copy Share Image
