Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great. — Kay Ryan Copy Share Image
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
“If you don't want to keep him, then pretend he's a book. Enjoy him for two weeks, then return him” — Shannon Stacey Copy Share Image
My story is very long. And for somebody to write a good story, one needs a good writer, too. — Dutee Chand Copy Share Image
I usually dread writing non-fiction. I don't feel comfortable or confident writing essays and the like. — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
“In writing, as in life, there'll always be that one person throwing roses when everyone else is throwing tomatoes; make that person… — Anthony Beal Copy Share Image
I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance , while a story must have meaning . The… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I always say writing a play is like toothache: I find it incredibly painful, and it's only once the play's out that… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution… — Natalie Zemon Davis Copy Share Image
“Whatever. I’ve never understood what the big deal is about reading.” He shuts the door and locks it, turning for the stairs.… — Jessica Sorensen Copy Share Image
“few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Fiction may be about lying – on the surface, anyway – but fiction is about hiding the truth behind those lies. It's… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
I think that writers often try too hard in the name of expression, when often it's just a matter of reframing what's… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I must speak the truth, even at the risk of being ostracized by my fellow scribblers. In fact, anticipating their rage, I… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks.… — Mary Garden Copy Share Image
“Novels were not arguments; a story worked, or it didn't, on its own merits. What did it matter if a detail was… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy. — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
“Malaysians don't like to read. If you're reading this, you must not be liking it, or not Malaysian.” — Brian Yap Copy Share Image
This book that I just wrote is going to be coming out very soon to Australia. — Ronald Biggs Copy Share Image
The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing. — George Stephen Copy Share Image
I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words. — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life. — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes. — Randy Owen Copy Share Image
What you write becomes who you are… So make sure you love what you write! — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased.” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
