The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
“Brian: I love books Prof. Morrison: The contents of books, or just owning a whole load of books?” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“The story of your life has many chapters. One bad chapter doesn't mean it's the end of the book.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus. — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
People joked that Forster became more renowned with every book he did not write. — Paul Gray Copy Share Image
I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
Experience in itself wasn’t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I’d… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
It is clear from Salman Rushdie's writing that politics and literature cannot be separated. Everything is political. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
The thing is, with writing, it's form or content. You need to write about something interesting or you need to write about… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
We start out talking about the story, trying to figure out who is who and what should happen, taking notes the whole… — Phil Foglio Copy Share Image
The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I have never written a book about my life, despite being offered purses of gold. I made 'Boxes' because I wanted to… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
“In your modesty you seem to consider that writers are of different blood and bone from yourselves; that they know more of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“A more generous, more useful interpretation of the phrase is that we should write about what we know, *however we come to… — Christopher Beha Copy Share Image
A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Yet I'm making a book and I'm going to care immensely about what words get bound in the pages, and I want… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
To this day, to this very day, except for television, I've never had a writer. Anything I've ever done on the stage,… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature — George Ade Copy Share Image
“Books are medicine for the soul. They heal the eternal parts of a person.” — Loretta Lost Copy Share Image
“I couldn't convince her that if I had a book with me, I wasn't lonely.” — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why would u waste your time writing something mean or stupid if ur gunna put — Ayden Copy Share Image
Reading gives you some place to go when you have to stay where you are. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
There is no vacation for a writer! Every moment of his life is work! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end? — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
