In my mind, continuity means the best writer at a company is held hostage by the worst. — Marv Wolfman Copy Share Image
For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world. — Christopher Smart Copy Share Image
“Writing is like knowing the beauty you possess inward; the possibilities are endless.” — Annette Whitaker-Moss Copy Share Image
You just write one word and that tells you what the next word is going to be. — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check. — Erle Stanley Gardner Copy Share Image
Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out of their mouths, especially… — Alan Zweibel Copy Share Image
Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“A body of work, therefore, reveals the intellectual and emotional progress of the writer, and is a map of his soul. It's… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Ask yourself, what makes my book so different? So interesting? Don’t write to be a best seller. Write for and from your… — Leon Nacson Copy Share Image
Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
“Even the imperative to make choice after choice without clear guidance - allegedly the most nerve-wracking part of the profession - isn't… — Daniel B. Smith Copy Share Image
I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“I spent the afternoon in a bookstore. There were no books in it. None had been printed for nearly half a century.… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“You make me love books and the words inside them, because they talk about you. I know they do, they tell me… — Nema Al-Araby Copy Share Image
“But as my father told him, and as anyone who reads regularly might agree, the only thing that has to be similar… — Alice Ozma Copy Share Image
The subject of the novel is reality liberated from soul. The reader in complete independence presented with a structured process:let him evaluate… — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
“If the director fired everyone here who might go mad, half the museum would be depopulated", Christine replied. She exaggerated, of course… — Jordan L. Hawk Copy Share Image
“But to continue the story of my professional experiences. I made one pound ten and six by my first review; and I… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the dull parts of first drafts come from a kind of over-managing, intrusive writer who wants to… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
Books did not need to be beautiful back in the Fifties, because nothing else was beautiful back then. Books were simply there:… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Jack Benny really liked my book. I know because he called me up from the library and told me. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one. — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none. — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
I think playing the glamour card is a disastrous error as a literary writer. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer. — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Literature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“I am not entirely persuaded that selling a book is like selling a pig.” — Kathleen A. Flynn Copy Share Image
Tea and books - Mmmmmm, two of life's exquisite pleasures that together bring near-bliss. — Christine Hanrahan Copy Share Image
Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Purchasing and downloading a book on to your e-reader won't necessarily protect it from disappearing. — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
