“I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.' — Diane Mott Davidson Copy Share Image
“Books, after all, do not have the same impact whenever we read them.” — Donald Sassoon Copy Share Image
“Reading is the spark to imagination. Ignite yours and live forever free.” — Dan Sanders Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well. — Caroline Gordon Copy Share Image
It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“no writing is a waste of time--no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work.” — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“Writing was a defeat, it was a humiliation, it was coming face-to-face with yourself and seeing you weren't good enough.” — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school. — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation. — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“In the real world, writing is not artificially separated into specific discourses. It is blended for effect.” — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
For those who can do it and who keep their nerve, writing for a living still beats most real, grown-up jobs hands… — Terence Blacker Copy Share Image
Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
People never explain to you exactly what they think and feel and how their thoughts and feelings work, do they? They don't… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“One day the rotting remains of their libraries will disintegrate so completely that they will be indistinguishable from the world’s wrack of… — Yoon Ha Lee Copy Share Image
“It is not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books...take it where you can find it,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Be careful. As if something’s going to jump us in a library.” “You might be surprised.” “What do you mean?” “You know… — Max Gladstone Copy Share Image
When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“The Nook is an under-appreciated genius of a lovemark. The team at Barnes & Noble got a lot right with the Nook,… — Jason Merkoski Copy Share Image
I don't think I anticipated supporting myself as a writer... I expected I would have to be a teacher or a journalist,… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“THE MANY FACES OF SURVIVAL Sunday, August 10th at 2:00 PST Dachau Liberator, medical whistle-blower, award winning writer, college professor and world… — Judy Gregerson Copy Share Image
“Maybe Heaven will be a library and then I might get to finish my ‘to-read’ list.” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
“What a writer needs? A friend. A friend that’ll accompany beside solitude itself.” — Desi Puspitasari Copy Share Image
I have to say, 'Pod' was a bon-bon, a treat to myself. A treat to write: a happy, pleasurable write. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness. — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is better to re-write than overwriting. Avoiding the repetition is the best. — Biman Gandhi Copy Share Image
Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting. — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
