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I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“I’ll probably just read a book. I’ve got like a million of them in my to-be-read pile.” — Rebekah L. Purdy Copy Share Image
Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read. — Ernie Harwell Copy Share Image
As an author, I realise, you're on your own. You have to do everything you can to help The Book. If I… — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
“Life is like reading a book... Sometimes when you need to move forward you just have to start the next chapter.” — Christie Cote Copy Share Image
“I’ve realized the most effective writing and living are done when we are willing to be vulnerable. I think we spend most… — Katie Kiesler Copy Share Image
Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write? — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Gutless is a strong word, do you know what I mean? It doesn't take a lot of guts to sit behind a… — Lee Cattermole Copy Share Image
“Dad used to read aloud to us from Dickens and Kipling. My tastes were omnivorous. I read anything I could lay my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not very good in the mornings and often stay up late writing, so I get up at about 10am if I'm… — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
In researching literary agents I did what the books tell you to do: I looked at the acknowledgments page of a book… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
You can't build a vocabulary without reading. You can't meet friends if you ... stay at home by yourself all the time.… — Rudolf Flesch Copy Share Image
I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance. — Melvil Dewey Copy Share Image
I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Writing is about confidence and wondering what the point of anything is. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer. — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time. — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I know it's a cliché to say I write for myself, but I write for myself. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
