If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I always wrote from a very young age, literally from the time I learned how to read and write. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Books come from trees and flipping the pages sounds like wind through leaves — CJoybell C Copy Share Image
“Writing may be masturbatory, but God forbid it should be an act of autocannibalism.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Writing is like great sex … the more intensity you invest the bigger the … err… reward.” — Wendy S. Hales Copy Share Image
With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“A writer who’s a pro can take on almost any assignment, but if he or she doesn’t much care about the subject,… — Sterling Lord Copy Share Image
To write anything tolerable, the mind must be in a natural, proper disposition; provocatives, in that case, as well as in another,will… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Writing is a sufficiently lonely and mysterious pastime that I don't begrudge myself a talisman or two, so long as they don't… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
If India hadn't become a troubled space for me, somehow I wouldn't have any reason to write about it. So the fact… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
You always try to do your own thing. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a book that… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
When you write, you're always revealing a difficult part of yourself. It may not be a part of yourself that looks as… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The best thing anyone can do is be himself. Everyone was made different by God, and that's the way it should be.… — Ernie Harwell Copy Share Image
Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
“It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For so long, the model for writing has been, you sit in a room alone for a number of days or weeks… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
So much of my own life inspires what I write. Whether it's work, family, friends, motherhood, I am a writer who tends… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
I remember I had a copy of 'David Copperfield' that I lugged around at primary school. I started reading it when I… — Victoria Coren Mitchell Copy Share Image
“There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
I am a writer. I am rooted in Tolstoy, I am rooted in Homer, I am rooted in Cervantes. — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
Life doesn't just happen. You happen to life. You decide how you want to write your story. — Julie Foudy Copy Share Image
I always liken life to a book where you turn the pages one at a time. — Jessica Jung Copy Share Image
It's true, I did write - but it's probably not as dramatic as it sounds. — Chris Hughton Copy Share Image
Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down. — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down. — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“When you read, don't consider only what the author thinks, but take time to consider what you think.” — N.H. Kleinbaum Copy Share Image
Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Books should to one of these four ends conduce, For wisdom, piety, delight, or use.” — John Denham Copy Share Image
