“Life seemed so much more manageable when you could write it down neatly on paper.” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
It's much harder to act poorly written material. It's much harder to memorize poorly written material. — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
I didn't want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad. — David Liss Copy Share Image
I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner. — Helena Christensen Copy Share Image
I love stories, but writing fiction is another craft and I don't feel as if I have it. — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do think that books are invaluable as a reservoir of what we call the human space. And this is why I… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“What if superhumans are bored by novels about the experiences of lowly Sapiens thieves, whereas run-of-the-mill humans find soap operas about superhuman… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature. — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page. — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
Your obligation as writers is to distinguish yourself. … The ultimate result should be a book that you write that no one… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
I had real concerns about the relationship between nature and culture and places I wanted to write about... I thought, well, maybe… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
There's also a lot of stuff that's not really good that gets written so I say to people who are excited about… — Josh Prince Copy Share Image
I cannot always write at the same time, in the same place. I work, travel and have a vigorous family life. If… — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans...… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
“Most people either love or hate old libraries. To some, a room like this--dim, high-ceilinged, dusty, smelling of old paper and crumbling… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are… — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speech, and… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant. — Melvil Dewey Copy Share Image
Every time you write something, you say much more than you think you say. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“I believe the books we write are the dreams we couldn't find on the bookshelves...” — Ty Zeiter Copy Share Image
“Oh, yes, dear reader: the essay is alive. There is no reason to despair.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Goodbyes hurt when the story is not finished and the book has been closed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There's nothing quite like reading a good book that just might become your favorite.” — Joscelyn Gleave Copy Share Image
“To be a great Writer, Write what you know & Write what other writers wouldn't write about.” — Maryann Gestwicki Copy Share Image
A library is where ideas sleep between covers, waiting for you to discover them. — Lois Ehlert Copy Share Image
May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal! — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
