Books are fountains of knowledge and also help the heart find the way to use that knowledge with wisdom — Robert S. Jepson, Jr Copy Share Image
“She had the power to change the world but she couldn't save the one she loved.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“The only way to be inclined to write is to write to your inclination.” — Terry Lander Copy Share Image
I am often asked why I write, and I don't know really--I just want to. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way. — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
“Concentration is another name for what we have called activity in reading. The good reader reads actively, with concentration.” — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“Reading a book is like having the ability to dip a straw into the author’s soul and sip and slurp without lowering… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“My #writing isn't a hobby; it's not a distraction nor escape from reality, neither is it a waste of time. My writing… — Diem Burden Copy Share Image
I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
I'm not the sad sack that people might think I am. But I think that if I didn't write and perform, I… — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
“The thought of people reading in the sun, on a beach, tempts me to recommend dark books, written in the shadow of… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“You should read this book’ almost never simply means you should read this book. It is usually far more fraught. Telling someone… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“Without being aware that I was following in my father’s footsteps, I read, before I went to Cambridge, Mill’s Logic and Political… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
"Only write what you know" is very good advice. I do my best to stick to it. I wrote about gods and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“One of the most interesting parts of writing is that you can think about it all of the time. Writers get their… — Edgardo H Pangilinan Copy Share Image
Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Book collecting is a largely solitary, mostly male, and completely absorbing activity. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
“Your reciept is your library card." -- On what killed the brick and mortar bookstores.” — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. — Gloria Swanson Copy Share Image
“He was alone with seven thousand books...mostly aged and unsaleable.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I hated writing 'Love Warrior.' It's the hardest thing I've every written. I cried. — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
You know what you are best at, and writing is just not my thing, but I like it. — Sara Gilbert Copy Share Image
Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I'm not that interested in writing for myself. That's not where my impetus as a writer comes from. — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I can't say that I ever actually decided to become a writer. It kind of snuck up on me. — William Landay Copy Share Image
“A writer's job is done once the lines touch reader's forbidden chords.” — Shreya Gupta Copy Share Image
