“Books can break a man open, even ones about a panda, maybe especially so.” — Gregory Sherl Copy Share Image
“-- that books were mirrors, reflective in sometimes unpredictable ways.” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
I think, for me, I have to remember that I'm telling a story in some way. — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
“For my books, I do everything short of writing my own reviews. Those I do tall.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I think (Robert E.) Howard often wrote with his heart, but not always with his head.” — Stephen Jones Copy Share Image
I love to read and I love to write. I love to read. You have no idea how many books I have.… — Mary Mouser Copy Share Image
I'm a writer and a feminist of color, and I've written complex, powerful women for my entire career. I'm just one voice,… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible. — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
I looked back at some high school journals and discovered that I definitely wanted to be a writer, but not necessarily comedy. — Allison Silverman Copy Share Image
“It's when people begin to fancy that they actually know something about literature that they cease to be literarily interesting, or even… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I journal for about half an hour, and by the time that's done, the business day on the East Coast has begun.… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“You’re going to turn the next page, because you still have hope. You hope there’s a little something more, and it’s nothing… — Rory Harrison Copy Share Image
“Those other moments that I’ve been re-retuning to seem to fade a bit every time I go to them. It’s kind of… — Amy Huntley Copy Share Image
A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“As writers we are always seeking support. First we should notice that we are already supported every moment. There is the earth… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“It makes sense. It's all there. Everything that's beautiful or wise or significant has been written down at some time or other.… — Adam Kennedy Copy Share Image
A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“For me, this is what wild reading is: readers who incorporate reading into their personal identities to the degree that it weaves… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
“I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good.” — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“Passion for books is the most important thing in being an editor/translator. Work with love.” — Listiana Srisanti Copy Share Image
When you go through a camp, you do a fight, you basically finish a chapter in your book. — Beneil Dariush Copy Share Image
“What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Ruth's writing is so joyful, funny and uplifting; it's always a real treat of a read. — Fiona Walker Copy Share Image
My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write. — Julien Green Copy Share Image
“Rather than dirt, I’d rather push a wheelbarrow full of books. Dirty books.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Popular magazines multiply while the library shelves remain undisturbed. — Elisabeth Marbury Copy Share Image
I have written, and I do write, but the truth is I don't love it. I can't stand the process! — David Hewlett Copy Share Image
