The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose. — Hudson Stuck Copy Share Image
It is not about of how many books you have, it is about of how you read them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life. — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
“Writing is a failure. Writing is not only useless, it's spoiled paper.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not a big hijinker. I'm a big sit-in-my-chair-and-read-a-book-er. — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
Every summer has a story and I wish these summer will be the best story I had. — Leo Copy Share Image
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Any writer knows he has to pay for his compliments. As soon as he has said, Why, thank you, that's very generous… — Mary Jane Ward Copy Share Image
“Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an old young writer. Beyond… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Morality for the novelist is expressed not so much in the choice of subject matter as in the plot of the narrative,… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
“Senor Sempere believed that God lives, to a smaller or greater extent, in books, and that is why he devoted his life… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field,… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Now I rewrite more and more severely, and I take great pleasure in cutting thousands of words out of first drafts; I… — Ramsey Campbell Copy Share Image
Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don't… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
