A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor. — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As I tell my intro creative writing students, after reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write. — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just… — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
Most writers live in self-imposed exile, even when they don't leave their country. They prefer the undiscovered country inside their own heads. — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
“I think that the best fiction is directly rooted in an ability to identify and tell the psychological truth about people.” — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
“Writing is so much more problematic than drawing, full of moral pitfalls, ambiguity, public responsibility. If you record a day of your… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
Literature is about telling stories. Now, the gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we dream of things that we've always wanted--of things that we have been searching for our whole lives without knowing it...and… — Cassandra Giovanni Copy Share Image
Of course, there are hundreds of novels and authors that have influenced me. But to choose three, they are: Stephen King/The Stand… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories,… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
You told us over and over that you don’t think you could live without books, but the ironic thing is, you’d probably… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
“I have three copies of the first edition, which sold in double figures, speaking loosely; there was a moment when Blond's 'Lord… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
