Through my writing, I have made new friends and continued to learn about this world of ours in all its wonder, with… — Sonia Levitin Copy Share Image
“If peace had a smell, he thought, it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.” — Mark Pryor Copy Share Image
This book blew me away. Kelly Parra writes with the keen eye of an artist. Graffiti Girl is warm, gutsy, and true-to-life… — Anne Frasier Copy Share Image
It's very unlikely that a writer is going to make a living by writing. So then the question is: how do you… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“ Like all men of the Library, I have traveled in my youth; I have wandered in search of a book, perhaps… — José Borges Copy Share Image
In some ways I'm a reticent man, and for quite a number of years there wasn't very much of my real true… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
“Writing is so much more productive when it is set on fire, for then and only then can you feel the passion… — Jennifer Megan Varnadore Copy Share Image
It's a beautiful idea to focus on how everything is temporary and always in flux. It may feel bad now, but it… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
“Shelves full of books are all around me. Opening the different volumes I take a look, and find the pages covered with… — Jonathan D. Spence Copy Share Image
“A person is never as quiet or unrestrained as they seem, or as bad or good, as vulnerable or as strong, as… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Auto da Fay reveals the trickles of a creative sensibility that later became a tide, but essentially, Weldon the writer emerges only… — Joanna Murray-Smith Copy Share Image
Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“I'm writing the next novel in the Thanatology series, entitled the Lurking Man... Thank God for erasers.” — Keith Rommel Copy Share Image
First, I write down all I know about the story, at length and in detail. Then I sink the iceberg and let… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
I never get sick of writing my own stories because there's a certain comfort in knowing you will never run out of… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second… — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image
I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
've had notebooks, but they are nondescript. All I care about is that they fit in my hand. I scribble down ideas.… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
“Glancing round to see that no one was watching, I sniffed at it. The leather binding, soft and supple, was pungent, but… — Linda Proud Copy Share Image
If I were to give myself a pat on the back, it would be for sticking with bookmaking as my primary way… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
A recommendation to scholars: Write only one book about Lincoln; give it your best shot, and then move on. — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's… — David Ortiz Copy Share Image
I don't think I'll write a large novel again because it was like being in jail for me. Even though that's the… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Books are like the last parachute in the dying situation in the plane of life, helpful to soothe the sorrows and get… — Farid Copy Share Image
I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Reading, as it turned out, is the easy part. Finding a good book is the real challenge. It's a crapshoot. It's like… — Doug Robinson Copy Share Image
“When I’d gotten older, she’d taught me to read on my own, telling me, “If you ever doan like where you are,… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
