“This first book’s for everyone, though almost no one wants it or would know how to read it.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
I am almost six-novels-old. It took me until the third novel to call myself a writer. — Manju Kapur Copy Share Image
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young. — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I have so many books to write now. So I'll write from home. Sometimes I'm writing in the office too, in my… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Books are curious things. When they want to live, they find a way to become part of the lives that need them."… — Mark Danielewski Copy Share Image
“...perhaps the most acute source of happiness from writing was the happiness of expressing a very complicated idea–the kind of idea that… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I keep a note pad because, sometimes, my thoughts get jammed up, and this is the only way that I can just,… — Moneybagg Yo Copy Share Image
I wouldn't buy a book simply because I like the cover. I would pick it up. The jacket can call your attention… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
“Writing is a profession that requires being alone. Just alone. You talk, laugh, get pissed off, get scared, be happy, think, imagine,… — Alexina Benavidez Copy Share Image
It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
We live too much in books and not enough in nature, and we are very much like the simpleton of a Pliny… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“Ignatius B. Samson, welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“I'm so passionate about my writing, there's page-spunk pouring out of my fingertips.” — Mike Philbin Copy Share Image
The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
“Don't listen to writers. They're messed up - that's why they're writers!” — Chocolate Waters Copy Share Image
How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books! — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically. — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing. — Julia Leigh Copy Share Image
