Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“write something you feel about, than delete it. bam! you go back to the start with fresh mind” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No one cares about books, that’s why you can write anything you want in them.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents.” — Allison Hoover Bartlett Copy Share Image
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
“Writing stays. It fastens words down. A man can speak his mind and some nasty wee scuggan will write it down and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
To me, there is nothing higher than fiction. Nothing. It is fundamentally who I am. I am a teller of stories. For… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion revisions,… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“I thought about how all that mattered, in all entirety, and all I wanted, and all I could see anything being worth… — Ariel Schrag Copy Share Image
I don't know any writer of fiction who enjoys trying to point out or dissect whatever they produced with strangers and let… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I'll sit down for an hour or two a few days a week in a quiet place and brainstorm. The earlier in… — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
I don't think I have a very novelistic brain. I like to read, but I don't know if I could ever write… — Jacob Anderson Copy Share Image
The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism and fiction brought narration to an end, it is sought… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“From travelling booksellers and undercover bookshops, to pop-up stalls and community hubs, walking into a good bookshop is like walking into another… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
The first book I ever bought for myself was 'One Fish Two Fish' by Dr. Seuss. My favourite page shows two children… — Mini Grey Copy Share Image
No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“I soon discovered that one doesn't simply read Crime and Punishment or A Tree Grows in Brooklyn . One reads a certain… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I thought that deserved a book and feel like the door needs to be open so people can say, "Ok, here we… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
If I get to tell good stories with good people, that's good enough for me. — Judge Reinhold Copy Share Image
So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing. — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
I'm quite fond of the writer who told a beginning author, "If you've got a message, use Western Union." — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written. — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Picture books are an emotional medium. They need to make us feel something. — Marla Frazee Copy Share Image
“They found Mr. Bennet still up. With a book he was regardless of time;...” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
