The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things. — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“I'm not sure if I write because I am crazy, or I'm crazy because I write.” — Wendy Stanphill Copy Share Image
Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
If the right idea comes up, and it feels true to talk about somebody being in a truck, and that's the only… — Shane McAnally Copy Share Image
I definitely could not write a character that was cruel or unconcerned with animal welfare. For me, not just as a writer… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Beginning a new book is always a test of my expectations. The turn of a single page can lift me up or… — Kim Hotzon Copy Share Image
Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I don't have a diary, I don't write things into a diary. I imprint myself into the sky and when the sunlight… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing… Writing well is difficult, but one… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
I mean, when I was young I could write all through the night and I loved to work late into the night.… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality -… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only when I make movements away from the tribe of indie art and literature. Maybe that's something important for me to keep… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
When reading fiction, we cannot automatically assume that what we read is fact. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Maybe one thing is that you have to find the best way to write whatever works better for you. — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
Willa Cather said that she write best when she stopped trying to write and began simply to remember. — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
“I write a lot because I don't talk much. If I don't write, I'll talk much.” — Nurina Izzati Copy Share Image
The real threat to reading isn’t the time we spend hanging out, it’s the time we spend online. — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
“If there is a bibliographic equivalent of alcoholism, many librarians have it.” — G. Edward Evans Copy Share Image
As a writer and former elected official, I believe in the power of words. — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
