Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
I think I am a writer, but professionally I feel drawn to and suited for directing. — Mary Stuart Masterson Copy Share Image
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
People who know and love the same books as you, have the road map to your soul. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it come as sincerely from the author's… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want to do… — Robert Hunter Copy Share Image
“Lila is right, one writes not so much to write, one writes to inflict pain on those who wish to inflict pain.… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've heard some writers say things like, 'Well, I'm a professional writer. I only start books I know I can finish.' I… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
Hugh Howey and Amanda Hocking come to mind immediately as authors who managed to build a successful following without the initial support… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
“Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Writing down call numbers with short pencils, searching up and down aisles that would turn dark when the timers on the lights… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
The writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
If your reading life and your friendships overlap, that's just a nice coincidence - a case where the conversation you're having with… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
“People who shop at Barnes and Noble voted Ulysses the best novel of the last century, and who's to tell them different?… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
Most good novelists have been women or homosexuals. The novel is the triumphant evolved creation, one increasingly has to think, of these… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I wrote before I could write. I got my hands on a journal, maybe a hand-me-down; I had three older siblings. My… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I was desperately shy when I was wee. Totally lacked confidence socially. When I look back at school photographs, I'm always the… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
“The free-lance writer is one who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.” — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
One reads books for knowledge, as one would breath Oxygen to survive! — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way. — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
If you write for somebody that you know, then your job is so much easier. — Jessica St. Clair Copy Share Image
History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
“The more our fingers are getting skilled on keypad the more we are losing the art of holding the pen.” — Himmilicious Copy Share Image
I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards. — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
“Those who don't read have no advantage over those who can't." --Mark Twain” — Lisa Mayme Corbit Copy Share Image
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing is like trying to escape quicksand. The harder you try the faster you sink.” — Alane Adams Copy Share Image
My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three. — Mark E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Every soul is a story shelved away in an infinite library in the sky.” — Karen Amanda Hooper Copy Share Image
