I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Books aren't made of pages and words.Tehy are made of hopes,dreams and possibilities.” — Harlequin Copy Share Image
“I used my writing as a bridge between this world and one that wasn’t quite so painful.” — Darrell Pitt Copy Share Image
“When a man solved his problems by punching them, books were often a foreign thing.” — Brian McClellan Copy Share Image
Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Shobha announced, trying to lighten the mood. “And I’ll keep all the books,” Girish said in the same spirit. “Fair enough. But… — Amulya Malladi Copy Share Image
I say to my pupils, 'You can pitch me any thing you've got, but tell me why you're the only person who… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
The book industry is all about community, and it never really feels like anyone is competing against anyone, thankfully. — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Co-creation is much more work than writing somewhere in a hidden corner and then publishing your content. However, the benefits outweigh the… — Alexander Osterwalder Copy Share Image
“You can, of course, write to inspire others… but most importantly, you must write to inspire yourself.” — Jessica Swan Copy Share Image
The creative process requires a period of boredom, of being stuck. That's actually a very uncomfortable period that a lot of people… — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The idea that reading is a moral quality has unhappily led many conscientious persons to renounce their innocuous dalliance with light literature… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Here is my room, in the yellow lamplight and the space heater rumbling: Indian rug red as Cochise's blood, a desk with… — Robert R. McCammon Copy Share Image
Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at… — Linn Ullmann Copy Share Image
There are few writers who, if they publish anything, I am going to buy it: Ian McEwan, Scott Turow, Pat Conroy -… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“I like to hear the marching of typewriter keys, the shudder of the space bar, the metallic ding at the end of… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love. — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
our lives change in two ways :through the people we meet and the books we read — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Since al the people in the world is worth the same, whats the point to tear eacheader down? — Pianteyyouknowwho Copy Share Image
“Speed Reader: Nothing more than… "Getting knowledge in a fast way". (Note: What's that?)” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Psychologists and psychiatrists send me cards and say, 'Hey, I love your books.' — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
The only way I know how to write is socially and getting immediate feedback on my phone. — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
Anyone who wants bookstores to survive is portrayed as a Luddite who goes around smashing up Kindles. — John Connolly Copy Share Image
