Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Some writers are born. Others learn. I was born a writer but have a lot to learn.” — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit. — Miranda Lambert Copy Share Image
Good blurbs are short, sweet, and limited to six. They answer the question “Why should I buy this book? — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it. — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation… — Fukuzawa Yukichi Copy Share Image
“but God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.” — Mackenzi Lee Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't enjoy other people, but what I find with writers is this back and forth. And also, there's… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Everyone in the book's ecology, starting with the author and including the publisher, the distributor, the booksellers, the libraries, and ending up… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I write when I have something to say and not when I don't. My time is better spent if I know I… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
“I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“..:One writes better when one has suffered the most and when one has prevail. One gets it's inspiration during the process of… — Rafael Garcia Copy Share Image
Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk writing for inspiration to strike. Writing is like… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“There's some instinctive attraction that draws you, as a writer, to your subject. And the attraction usually has to do with some… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always… — Sigrid Nunez Copy Share Image
When you read with your child, you show them that reading is important, but you also show them they're important - that… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
“ The following year the house was substantially remodeled, and the conservatory removed. As the walls of the now crumbling wall were… — Jamie Fuller Copy Share Image
It wasn't a case of me sitting down and thinking, right then, what shall I do with my life? Airline pilot? Plumber?… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
Writers interest me for their style, their obsessions, the ways in which they approach the world. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy. — Michael Arndt Copy Share Image
The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like. — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe. — Denis Donoghue Copy Share Image
Naming my favorite books feels like naming a favorite child - impossible. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate. — James Herbert Copy Share Image
My thoughts can sometimes be spurred by what I read, but my reading is extremely eclectic. — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
As a novelist, you write about social mores, but not everything can be explained. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
I love librarians. They always make me feel like the world’s gonna be AOK. — danah boyd Copy Share Image
