“Sometimes writing is hard. You know what’s not hard? Watching Netflix. That’s easy.” — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
When books leave you physically and emotionally drained, you know it was a good one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I live between fantasy and reality at all times. In that way, I’m a librarian. — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
“Literature enables us to see our world and ourselves more clearly, to understand our lives more fully.” — Kylene Beers & Robert E. Probst Copy Share Image
I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Reading, for pleasure and knowledge, has always been, will always be one of my favorite things to do. (Larry Brown: A Writer's… — Larry Brown Copy Share Image
“To be a Russian writer at the end of the nineteenth century must have meant bearing an inescapably bitter fate. The more… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“If I behave like a good boy and take my Prozac...then I won't be able to write anymore. I'll have Writer's block… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
I feel very much a part of what I'm writing about, and I'm writing about things that concern me on a daily… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
When you write a roman a clef, there is a tendency on the part of the reader to wonder how much of… — Dave Itzkoff Copy Share Image
Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood.… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
“Literature, I have always thought, is in most places and companies a singularly dull and uninteresting thing to talk about, but one… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
Why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
I have never written a novel that volleys back and forth between a couple of different first person perspectives. It's definitely a… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade...It succeeds or fails on the strength of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Some of the stories in Dogwalker were written as long as four years ago, but I wouldn't say I've been working on… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
Indeed, being a beginner is very difficult right now. Book publishers are in a crisis, sales are dwindling, and publishing houses are… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
