“The fastest way to write is to pretend you have all the time in the world.” — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
“You know I always say that a healthy appetite for books leads to a girl with more than looks.” — Rachel Coker Copy Share Image
Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm not the type of woman who shows off my body; I'm a vocalist and I'm a writer and I think people… — Jazmine Sullivan Copy Share Image
In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Where there is writing- there is a writer Where there is planning- there is a planner Where there is a building- there… — Bliss Carman Copy Share Image
“If you had to give one piece of advice to people in their twenties, what would it be? To go to a… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I wonder if I'll meet one person that knows enough people that can get me recognized as a writer. Oh I already… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about. — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
I can certainly be surprised by turns a story takes, but usually not once I'm actually in the writing/drawing stage. In the… — Jessica Abel Copy Share Image
I've always relied a lot on landscape in my books, the atmosphere of a particular place, as well as a fair amount… — Kem Nunn Copy Share Image
“If your novel seems to be dragging, one of the first places to look is at the heart of your lead character.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have to read a lot so you know what good writing looks like and you get inspired. You have to write… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
There’s an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it’s self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't. — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do. — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
It's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction. — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I don't investigate things by writing about them, but let them build up inside of me. — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it. — Dick Bruna Copy Share Image
“What's cheaper than a gallon of gas? An ebook. Save a dollar, stay home and read!” — Shandy L. Kurth Copy Share Image
A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.” — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
When I'm working on one book, part of my imagination is thinking ahead to the next one. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Profitable bookstores sell books. Unprofitable book sellers store books.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
