“A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.” — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
“Some swore the cats had been caught pawing through the pages of open books - reading.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
I always travel with one book. I'll read it and then leave it for someone else, and take another book. — Patrick J. Adams Copy Share Image
I had a crazy amount of success as a writer, which isn't normal by any means. — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image
“The reader is entertained by the journey of another, but the writer is the changer of worlds.” — Rand Miller Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“It is just the literature that we read for 'amusement' or 'purely for pleasure' that may have the greatest, least suspected, earliest… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
“Being around her, he found even every day experiences were deeper, nuanced. Satisfaction and awareness slipped in between the layers of life… — Erica Bauermeister Copy Share Image
I think the best advice I got was to not worry about what other people would think while you were working on… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Today I want to get inside a book and wrap the pages tightly around my legs and arms and chest and back… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“November, a dark, rainy Tuesday afternoon. This is my ideal time to be in a bookstore. The shortened light of the afternoon… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
You are currently experiencing desire; otherwise, you wouldn't be reading these words. Even if you are reading them at the behest of… — William Braxton Irvine Copy Share Image
What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of,… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures...… — Adolfo Bioy Casares Copy Share Image
In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past,… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“a glass table nearby, with magazines carefully fanned out across it.” — Kelly Favor Copy Share Image
I never really tell anyone what I'm writing beforehand because I usually don't know what it will be. — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say. — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper. — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity. — Henry James Copy Share Image
And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius. — John Green Copy Share Image
Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Life is so encyclopedic, that even great knowledge giving books fails infront of it.. — Yashwardhan Pauranik Copy Share Image
“I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level.” — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard. — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“No book is worth reading once if it is not worth reading many times.” — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
