Some writers pick a topic and write around that, but I like to include it all. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Living in a house with a large library,” she said, “is a little like living in heaven.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To know your way round a library is to master the whole of culture, i.e. the whole world.” — Sophie Divry Copy Share Image
A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
While medicine creates material for writing, perhaps even more important is that it also creates a psychological and emotional need to write. — Daniel Mason Copy Share Image
Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible,… — Catherine Mayer Copy Share Image
Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I'm trying to be somebody on whom the experience is lost by supplanting it with its telling. I definitely do that in… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Writing is not a special language that belongs to a few sensitive souls who have a 'gift for words'. Writing is the… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“(In reply to the question, 'Would you like some suggestions for a plot for your next book?') There are three problems with… — Patricia C. Wrede Copy Share Image
“I know I’m not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
“A silent Library is a sad Library. A Library without patrons on whom to pile books and tales and knowing and magazines… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“What I've learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
In some ways, certain books are more powerful by far than any battle. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
“Society places the writer so far beyond the pale that society does not regard the writer at all.” — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Every writer secretly hopes that what he or she has written will endure. — Jonathan Coleman Copy Share Image
Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
No human being who wants to read and own a book should ever have to go on a bended knee to get… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
My second novel, "Good Benito", was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
