“If you have a book, and an imagination, you can never find yourself alone. Ever.” — William Fritz Copy Share Image
The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“I am more of a doer than a writer. I do not live to write. I write because I have lived.” — Thurman P. Banks Jr Copy Share Image
I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
In a rough way the short story writer is to the novelist as a cabinetmaker is to a house carpenter. — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“There are no reasons. She is obliged to be as she is. We all are. Reasons are in books.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I don't think I consciously decided to write for the young adult audience; my subconscious decided for me. — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
“To be a writer and know the pain of artistic block is to know real frustration (though it's not quite as bad… — John D. Rhodes Copy Share Image
“The job of adults who care about reading is to move heaven and earth to put that book into a child’s hands.… — Kenny Pieper Copy Share Image
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
“Good characters make you feel like you have new friends, don’t they? You have to re-read the books just to visit with… — Shawn L. Bird Copy Share Image
I eventually want to do writing on all the films, but not necessarily to be the writer. Writing is a painful, painful… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
Jayne Anne Phillips . . . is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite. . . . This is… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
“The privilege is not writing a novel, it's to have someone read it. When you look at it that way, you realize… — Javier A. Robayo Copy Share Image
“His gaze settles on the discarded book. He leans, reaching until his fingertips graze Dante's Inferno, still on its bed of folded… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
I can remember as a college student writing stories and novels, some of which ended up getting published and some that didn't.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Serena has spent her life fighting fiction the way good soldiers fight—intent on detecting its presence, harassing it, suppressing it—but I have… — Enrique de Hériz Copy Share Image
“Life gives us struggles first and reward later. And as a writer my life's purpose is to write and tell stories. Some… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“A letter is a most hazardous business, the written word allows no indecision, either distance or familiarity will emphasize the tone the… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“In the fourteenth century, Italian literature was, by requirement, divided into two categories: tragedy, representing high literature, was written in formal Italian;… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Read as much as you write. Go out and meet other writers. Look for stories in everything around you - music, movies,… — Kevin Sampsell Copy Share Image
