“Books are only half our job ; the other half is human nature.” — Mary Virginia Provines Copy Share Image
Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
“A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend.” — Douglas Jerrod Copy Share Image
I read two to three books a day anyway (I only sleep about two hours a night, and I read really fast). — Violet Duke Copy Share Image
“When I write I feel like I can breathe. It’s like yoga for the brain.” — Elise Stokes Copy Share Image
As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Write, even if you have a twinge, a doubt, a fear, a block, a noisy neighbor, a sick cat, thirteen unpublished stories,… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I do a lot of revising on paper. Sometimes I think I should just write longhand - what I type reads very… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“A good book is a good friend. He will talk to you if you want him to talk, but will shut up… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
“The charm of your writing,” Evelyn Waugh once wrote to Mitford, “depends on your refusal to recognize a distinction between girlish chatter… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Mr. O'Donnell was at the library counter, performing the sort of grim rituals librarians perform with index cards and stumpy pencils and… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
“I asked once, and the library assistant told me there were more than a hundred thousand books there, and more than sixty… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
A Heart So White is simply one of the best novels I know. I'm also thrilled by Javier Marías sentences, by how… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
“The reader is the space on which all the quotations that make up a writing are inscribed without any of them being… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“My gift as a child was writing. It wasn’t that I could write better than everyone else but it was that I… — Tony Gaskins Jr Copy Share Image
“If the thing bites down much harder I might wig out and demand beer... stay away from the phone, watch the red… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
There are writers you admire, for the skill or the art, for the inventiveness or for the professionalism of a career well… — James D. Houston Copy Share Image
It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“The weight of absence is as much a feature of any library as the constriction of order and space.” — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization... …Books are humanity in print. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Writing has got to be an act of discovery…I write to find out what I'm thinking about. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Life is a book evryday is a new page and every month is a new chapter and every year is a new… — Mee Copy Share Image
I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone. — Barbara Feldon Copy Share Image
Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
