“No matter what level of success, there is no such thing as a secure writer” — Michael Lennick Copy Share Image
“my ms is getting worse but reading takes me to my quite and safe place!!!!” — mike b Copy Share Image
“And books, she knew by then, were one of the necessities, the rocks of her life.” — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
I never get writer's block, but I do have days where I crawl under the duvet. — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
There is something to be said when you have great writers, and they write, and they write. — Jamie Hector Copy Share Image
As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Will remain of me thousand words and billion pages, scribbles of thoughts and dark secrets. — Ophelia Callens Copy Share Image
“I always return home to the same few authors. And, no matter how many times I return, I always find they have… — Charles Chu Copy Share Image
Anonymity usually arouses a great interest and curiosity but on the background of extraordinary style of writing mixed with brilliant humour the… — Kotlesya Copy Share Image
“I love ebooks. I love the idea of storing books in “The Cloud”, because honestly, reading and rainy days go together like… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
See, what I don't like listening to is when writers go, 'And then the person cries.' 'Or the person does this.' It's… — Kim Coates Copy Share Image
In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
The technology I like is the American paperback edition of 'Freedom.' I can spill water on it, and it would still work!… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Dictionaries, manuals, grammars, study guides and topic notes, classical authors and the entire book trade in de Viris, Quintus-Curtius, Sallust, and Livy… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of… — William Plomer Copy Share Image
In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are… — George Weah Copy Share Image
It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling terror, as I contemplate the drivel on the… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was… — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
“People think writing is an easy job, and in some ways it is. Flexible hours, no boss, no real structure . . . but… — Marc Levy Copy Share Image
Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis. — William Styron Copy Share Image
Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin? — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.” — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“A piece of writing has to start somewhere, go somewhere, and sit down when it gets there.” — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“Buying books always made me feel better, even if I never read them. - Florence Day” — Ashley Poston Copy Share Image
The original writer is not he who does not imitate others, but he who can be imitated by none — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Reading is your window to the world that no one can close for you.” — Sara Samarasinghe Copy Share Image
“It's not how great the ideas are. It's about how you write them, to make them great.” — Primadonna Angela Copy Share Image
A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“If you can't write, read. If you can't read, walk. Or walk and read, then write.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
“she pulled herself out of depression by escaping into the other worlds books offered.” — Elizabeth Hunter Copy Share Image
