I knew that if I was going to write a book, I was going to have to read one, too. — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
The only reason people write is because they are not wonderful men. — Anthony J. Carson Copy Share Image
One of my favourite books of all time: 'The Great Gatsby'. I just think it's so well written. — Danielle de Niese Copy Share Image
I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it. — Earl King Copy Share Image
The writer can't stop her unconscious from showing up, that's certain. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and… — James Frey Copy Share Image
I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages,… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
There are six 'Time Warp Trio' books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in… — Milorad Pavić Copy Share Image
Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Usually when I put together a book like this Death-Ray hardcover or that Ghost World special edition, then I have to reread… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have to go to a different place now. As a person... I want to step off whatever this… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Um um um um um. This business of—this business about marketing yourself, there’s nothing wrong with that. Unless we’re allowed to think… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
Wambaugh's naturalistic portrait of the cop world turned 'Centurions' and 'The Blue Knight' (1972) into bestsellers, but his next two books made… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“Children need to see themselves in books. They need to see their gender. They need to see their color, hair texture, their… — Christian Robinson Copy Share Image
Notable American Women is an enchanting and moving novel. Like Italo Calvino and Lewis Carrol, Ben Marcus reconfigures the world that we… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
Ultimately why I do what I do is to allow the story to affect change in people in some way. — Da'Vine Joy Randolph Copy Share Image
I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world. — Mattie Stepanek Copy Share Image
“I write, so that everyone else, can live. The Affidavit of Niedria Dionne Kenny” — Niedria Dionne Kenny Copy Share Image
I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“as a child there was either books or pain. i chose books. -how i became a writer” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
Science and literature are both ways to ask questions about why we're here. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome. — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
