We have to make writing a viable career for all the people who get into this skill. — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
“Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.” — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
Who said time machines haven't been built yet? They already exist. They're called books — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
“A novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.” — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“When you’re a writer, the cure for whatever ails you is always writing.” — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“Reading those books is all he does these days. I think he’s even read some of them twice . What kind of… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast -… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
“Take what interests and knowledge you can from books, but do not let them replace words and thoughts of your own.” — Pai Kit Fai Copy Share Image
Nonfiction is more personal for me. It's more personal in that it's more direct, and actually it's always been more direct, even… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The best liars lie with their eyes rather than with their words. This might put writers at a disadvantage. — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
“While I was starting out I had no idea on how the world of writing and publishing worked. I had no mentor,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Most of what I know about writing I’ve learned through running every day. These are practical, physical lessons. How much can I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I use things, I steal things from my life when I want to, when I need to, or when it seems appropriate.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When I read 'Greenberg,' I had a really strong sense if I could be any kind of writer I wanted to be,… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Many writers are paralyzed by the thought that they are competing with everybody else who is trying to write and presumably doing… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Writing a book with completely fictitious characters is like running a democracy, centered around a capital state. You constantly live with the… — Shomprakash Sinha Roy Copy Share Image
Growing up, I would take out books from the school library and hide them in the hamper. I'd wait until my parents… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I read because one life isn’t enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody.” — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
It's easier to write about what you know. I wouldn't write about a Wall Street broker, for example. — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work. — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
I don't want to put up this act of being a voracious reader, which I am not. — Ajith Kumar Copy Share Image
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Gone was the meek little librarian. Gavin made me wanton and reckless” — Kendall Ryan Copy Share Image
Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
