This is the copywriters task: not to create mass desire — but to channel and direct it. — Eugene Schwartz Copy Share Image
I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally. — Ashanti Copy Share Image
Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else. — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know. — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
“A person who reads lives a thousand lives. A person who reads not, lives only one.” — Laura Vazquez Copy Share Image
If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
Once you have the first draft it's living, and you can coax it to grow and trim it and reshape it and… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
“Being a writer is a peculiar sort of a job," Neil Gaiman once observed. "It's always you versus a blank sheet of… — Jim Denney Copy Share Image
What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Creativity isn't defined by word count, or the number of books one has published. A writer makes a commitment to stretch as… — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
I don't remember being a keen reader, but apparently I was. My aunt told me that whenever I was teased for reading,… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
Get up from your desk and wander outside occasionally. To be a good writer one needs to be a good observer, and… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“You're not going to write the greatest novel ever written. Nor will I. Nor will anyone. Why? Because the greatest novel ever… — Sarah M. Cradit Copy Share Image
“Personally, I felt pretty safe. Librarians are like priests. You can tell them you want information on just about any subject and… — Eileen Cook Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of the portrayals of, in particular, younger minority ethnic characters on television, a lot of their dialogue,… — Corey Reynolds Copy Share Image
When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to… — Arthur Curley Copy Share Image
I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Historically, dust jackets are a new concern for authors; you don't see them much before the 1920s. And dust jacket is a… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
“Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for… — John Steinbeck from the Fall 1975 issue of The Paris Review Copy Share Image
reading is not a passive act. It's a creative act. It's a relationship between the writer and a person the writer will… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all. — Michael Musto Copy Share Image
A good friend is like a wonderful book, the inside is even better than the cover! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.” — T.L. Rese Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand. — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“Writing to me is like being addicted to heroin… it’s hard and its mean, but you just can’t stop.” — F.D. Crandall Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Reading, for me, was like breathing. It was probably akin to masturbation for my brain.” — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I? — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The book is that is the good one is Woodsong and we are trying to finish it.” — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
