When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business. — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
“He calls books freedoms. And homes too. They preserve all the good words that we so seldom use.” — Nina George Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a writer is punished by misunderstanding from what he had written...” — Navnath Godse Copy Share Image
“A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far away places without ever leaving your chair.” — Katrina Mayer Copy Share Image
Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is,… — Clifford Allbutt Copy Share Image
Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
How I learned to read was by reading the captions on TV, and I grew up from a really young age watching… — Cameron Monaghan Copy Share Image
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
“The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a… — adam johnson Copy Share Image
“...there stood Remus, dressed in hat and cloak and carrying a satchel full of books as though we would be traveling for… — Richard Harvell Copy Share Image
Whatever artistry may occur within the manuscript, the magic happens for me in the last draft. Whatever I have been resistant to… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think each of my books attempts to create its own voice so I'm not even sure I have a signature style,… — Paul Lisicky Copy Share Image
The book it reminded me of most is Henry Miller’s The Books in My Life. Like Miller, Shields manages to convey his… — Andre Alexis Copy Share Image
“Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Commercial books don't even get covered. The reason why so many book reviews go out of business is because they cover a… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I was that kid with the glasses and the hungry expression who haunted every library book sale and used bookstore in town:… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Reading is actually plunging into one's own identity and, one hopes, emerging stronger than before. You see, unconsciously, we are seeking to… — Amalia Kahana-Carmon Copy Share Image
Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them. — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“When you have an elevated spirit and a miserable heart, you write great things and do the poor.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance. — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it. — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
“The great thing about book burnings is, they still have to buy the books.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I never thought I wanted to write. Never did I know I can either, until now.” — C.A. Dimayuga Copy Share Image
I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I'm not disciplined enough to be a writer consistently. I write when I have to. — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
