Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it’s going to be okay. — Clare B. Dunkle Copy Share Image
“The tree leaves rustled like that noise e-books make when you turn the page.” — Daniel Nayeri Copy Share Image
“Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity.” — Donald J. Bingle Copy Share Image
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I always have at least one book with me. I try and read a book a month. — Gus Kenworthy Copy Share Image
“If you enjoy knocking self-publishing writers, write something better first, then, knock on!” — Robert Scott Copy Share Image
All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“Agenda-driven novelists don’t often want to bother learning the craft of fiction. They’re just dipping into fiction long enough to disguise their… — Jeff Gerke Copy Share Image
“Writers (of supernatural fiction), who used to strive for awe and achieve fear, now strive for fear and achieve only disgust.” — David Aylward Copy Share Image
I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package,… — Ellen Raskin Copy Share Image
“You don’t look like the librarians I remember,” he told her. “We’ve changed. There was a whole press release issued about it,… — Susan Mallery Copy Share Image
I've been through the whole western world, and it seems to me that there's more retail floor space devoted to the sale… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“By applying their observational abilities along with full appliance of their logic and creative powers, writers attempt to create mental maps to… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Write and rewrite until you fall in love with what you have created. Your final draft should move you and make you… — Pol Bard Copy Share Image
I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Jim Greenfield’s The Taxman Cometh will undoubtedly put a smile on the face of even the most dedicated big government freeloader. In… — Lars Larson Copy Share Image
Books have been handed down from generation to generation, as the true teachers of piety and the love of God, that represent… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“If you steal any of the books from the library, I will know, and you'll be sorry. Jessamine Lovelace.” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“By writing quotes... I mark a trail of my soul's journey in this realm.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“READING A GOOD BOOK IS LIKE LIVING ANOTHER LIFE. THE BEST PART IS, YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIKE IT.” — Phillip Knight Copy Share Image
In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on. — Richard Eder Copy Share Image
I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I think you always win in storytelling when you let the best creative ideas guide you. — Peter Billingsley Copy Share Image
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
“Our books are the deepest glimpses into our souls, the most raw and real anybody will ever find us.” — Melodie Ramone Copy Share Image
Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
