“Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now? — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Being a writer is a gift, being an author is amazing, becoming a best seller is everyone's dream” — LaQuita Cameron Copy Share Image
“People don't know they want to become an author until they meet me.” — Lucas J. Robak Copy Share Image
What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
You don't have to write like David Foster Wallace or James Baldwin or Maggie Nelson - indeed, you shouldn't. Those writers are… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Be a good reading role model. Show kids what you like to read, what you don't like to read, how you choose… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem. Watch me burn. Love always,… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering! — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The prime function of the children's book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Reading is never purely an act of isolation. When we read, we enter into a world of commonality, whether of language, story,… — Andrew Piper Copy Share Image
“I generally read every night before I fall asleep: Brad does too. I find it comforting to lie beside my husband, each… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
“A novel, in which all is created by the author's whim, must strike a more profound level of truth, or it is… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
“No one is asking, let alone demanding, that you write. The world is not waiting with bated breath for your article or… — Beth Mende Conny Copy Share Image
I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even. — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books. — Max Cannon Copy Share Image
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I had not read George Eliot, so read a few. I felt ashamed I hadn't read "Middlemarch" before. — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“a body on the sand. My journal gets very spotty here, with only a single detailed entry” — Paul Monette Copy Share Image
You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it. — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
“A successful book isn’t always good and a good book isn’t always successful” — Shane Porteous Copy Share Image
When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity. — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image
The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream. — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
If I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read. — Walt Kelly Copy Share Image
“When it comes to improving your life, reading the right book has an incalculable influence.” — DaManIAm Copy Share Image
