Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch. — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time. — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Writing is emotional...it is baring your soul to the world and waiting for someone to acknowledge and love it, or shun and… — Anne-Rae Vasquez Copy Share Image
I can't tell a story just by deciding to tell a story, do it in a didactic way. I need to have… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
You have to be able to invest in your own creations, to suspend your own disbelief in order to be able to… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
My books are the books that I am, the confused man, the negligent man, the reckless man, the lusty, obscene, boisterous, scrupulous,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Writing is an act of love. If it is not it is only handwriting. It consists in obeying the driving force of… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Although I'm very lazy when it comes to writing, I'm not that lazy when it comes to thinking. I like to develop… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
The thing is - do we really need another writer who writes a book every eighteen months, whether the quality is wonderful… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“... one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
If a woman writes about herself, she’s a narcissist. If a man does the same, he’s describing the human condition. But people… — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
“This is a place where books are treasured – books that hold the sweetly magical smell of history; books that crackle when… — Cassia Leo Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist at heart. How's that? And that's how I make my living, is I write novels. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write. — Catie Curtis Copy Share Image
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
“There is nothing better than a quiet night, a cup of tea, and a quiet place to read a good book,” — Deb Pearson Copy Share Image
I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them. — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as 'no market'. Some books are just niche orientated that's all.” — Jo Linsdell Copy Share Image
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be. — Anne M. Mulcahy Copy Share Image
“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.” — Harold Howe Copy Share Image
Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons. — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical. — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer. — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else. — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“when ever you read a good book somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light” — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
