Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being. — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
I have deposited some of my journals here for fear of accidents. — William John Wills Copy Share Image
I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Whenever I run out of people to write about, I cook up a few ghosts, or they appear before me. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
So much of writing is done alone in a room in sweatpants, with only the Internet for company. — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
Faith is a talent, and it goes the way of all your talents. Getting old is the subtraction of your powers. Which… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge,… — John Cotton Dana Copy Share Image
I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm… — Arthur Hailey Copy Share Image
An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal… — John Updike Copy Share Image
ONE BLOOD is a richly detailed, intricately woven tale rendered in lush, evocative prose. This memorable debut heralds Qwantu Amaru as a… — Brandon Massey Copy Share Image
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth is not… — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
When I write a book I'm always questioning the project as a whole. I always feel I might have to just throw… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
“The other thing that’s happened with writing is that I’m not afraid it will go away. Up until a couple of years… — Marsha L. Larsen Copy Share Image
“First, there must be talent, much talent. Talent such as Kipling had. Then there must be discipline. The discipline of Flaubert. Then… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“There are books for when you’re bored. Plenty of them. There are books for when you’re calm. The best kind, in my… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
It's pretty cool that artists like Flo Rida and Bingo Players can be inspired to interpret a song like 'Piano in the… — Brenda Russell Copy Share Image
I've been a writer for 42 years and, yes, it is a full time job for me. Not a hobby, but serious work. — Donald McKay Copy Share Image
Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
“My tbr list is an erection all on its own...it just keeps getting bigger.” — K.M. Golland Copy Share Image
I recommend free writing in the morning and the evening as a type of mental shower. — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
When you are writing; do it a right thing, because world begins with writing — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking. — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life. — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want? — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction . — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
