If you read a lot, the more you learn about people and places. — Montel Vontavious Porter Copy Share Image
“It’s the natural trajectory of a writing career that a writer becomes better at being herself.” — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“Like my Kindle paper-white but no substitute for a hardcover book. JKA” — Jim Allen Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later people believe writers rather than the government.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms. — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
“I glance back as I am pulling the door shut. I can see Mrs. Kasperek on her bed, in the apartment denuded… — Deborah Meyler Copy Share Image
“Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support sustem. (...) She read to discover how not to be Charlotte, how… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
In the best travel books the word alone is implied on every exciting page, as subtle and ineradicable as a watermark. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“How will I reconcile my interest in and membership of LibraryThing with GoodReads? Can manage a workable appreciation of both?” — Craig Hodges Copy Share Image
Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
I teach kids to read on a Saturday for this charity called Real Action. It's a voluntary school because lots of the… — Rachael Stirling Copy Share Image
“Pro captu lectoris, habent sua fata libelli" or, "According to the ability of the reader, every book has its own destiny.” — Terentianus Maurus Copy Share Image
I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
It’s being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it’s like… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I feel with writing, so much of the time, I don't know how to tap in and be spontaneous and alive on… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
So writing is not just writing. It is also having a relationship with other writers. And don't be jealous, especially secretly. That's… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“And as for going into a bookstore and not finding a book suitable for your 13-year-old...maybe you should do some research before… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The books that I do, the stories I write - I'm glad I'm able to do them, but they will quickly be… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
“I am a reader. A reader isn’t someone who just likes to read, but someone who feels such a strong attachment to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Writing is almost a place of dreams for me, and I don't have to give up anything to do it. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate. — John Metcalf Copy Share Image
That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives. — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
“Books are majical. With books we can be anyone, go everywhere, and do anything.” — Brenda Tetreault Copy Share Image
In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defence.” — John Alfred Langford Copy Share Image
I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
