What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that. — Salman Khan Copy Share Image
“I started with a book, and that led me to a library, and that led me everywhere.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Telling a story is an emotional and personal experience for me and I can't do without it. — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
It can be depressing when no one takes interest, and a lack of response makes the writer question why theyre writing at… — Lizz Clements Copy Share Image
“The old lady goes back to her paperback (it's Fifty Shades of Grey, and not her first trip through it, from the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad,… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Maybe authors shouldn't write more than one or two books. Maybe you just keep writing the same book over and over anyway.” — Adam Langer Copy Share Image
My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
“I could spend the rest of my life READING, Just satisfying my CURIOSITY - because you can hardly mention anything I'm not… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“The more books you read, the less topics you have in common with most of the people, that´s the price you pay… — Martina Tutková Copy Share Image
“But you don't know how to read anymore! When you open a book, you do it in the faith and assurances that… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
“In the meantime, there are all my books..." I'd seen his books. Almost all of them had been written before his birth,… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
And I was afraid. She frightens me because she can knock me down with a word. Because she does not know that… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
I sat with myself one day and asked, 'Who is in those prestigious literary circles? Do they represent me? Do they appreciate… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
As a kid, my brother and I would read the same novel, we'd memorize entire pages, reenact the book as it's characters,… — Irena A. Hoffman Copy Share Image
I don't procrastinate because I love the English language and the process of storytelling, and I'm always curious to see what will… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I think that most writers who are trying to write important and difficult books are in many ways putting their own humanity… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer. — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
“Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read.” — Louis H. Campbell Copy Share Image
When I read books it's to escape. It's so I don't have to talk to people. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Writing wasn't easy and wasn't fun. It was hard and lonely, and the words seldom just flowed. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Books should be full of stuff you could never say to people in public.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading. — Debbie Reynolds Copy Share Image
Whatever we put out, it's coming back to us. The universe keeps a perfect set of books. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
