A writer has to write something that they're - sit down with or are interested in every day of their life. — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
“Rejection is a writer's best friend. If you are not failing regularly, you are living so far below your potential that you're… — Gregg Levoy Copy Share Image
A School Library is Like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the… — Tom Angleberger Copy Share Image
The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large… — Beryl Bainbridge Copy Share Image
You can't really give away anything in your book ... should be exciting, it's my life, and I'm a cool and exciting guy. — Usain Bolt Copy Share Image
“I devoured the books because they were the rays of light peeking out from the doorframe, and perhaps past that door there… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
His books were part of him. Each year of his life, it seemed, his books became more and more a part of… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I think it is our job, as writers, to be epic. Epic and tiny at the same time. If you're going to… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“In reality, Hemingway didn't appeal to plumbers or roofers who read books; he was a rich man's writer, with the vocabulary and… — Gerald Hausman Copy Share Image
“the inevitability of turning the pages of books into online images should not prevent us from considering the side effects. To make… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Art glows with faith even in its weakest parts. At every moment, writing is an act of self-confidence – the sheerest, most… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I am a buyer of blank books. Kids find it interesting that I would buy a blank book. They say, Twenty-Six dollars… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are certain books in the history of the world that should never have been written. This book makes all those look… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Stephen King: If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered” — Afiena Kamminga Copy Share Image
Well — when I write my book, and tell the tale Of my adventures — all these little stars That shake out… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
“Amazon isn’t happening to the book business,” he likes to say to authors and journalists. “The future is happening to the book… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
The writing of 'The Ladykillers' was fun. But once it goes out of your hands it's not fun, 'especially for someone who… — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. — John Locke Copy Share Image
For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
In 2008, when I wrote Book 1 and Book 2, the head of the publishing house suggested twelve books - one each… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
Keeping a habit, in the smallest way, protects and strengthens it. I write every day, even if it's just a sentence, to… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious,… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
I remember as a child I just would copy everyone else's handwriting, and now I have sort of a version of my… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
Note that the #1 Top Reviewer at Amazon (4550 book reviews) is Harriet Klausner, formerly an acquisitions librarian in Pennsylvania. This just… — Peter Morville Copy Share Image
“I stood in the library admiring the huge book collection. There was something inherently calming about being surrounded by books, even their… — Saffron Mello Castro Copy Share Image
My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the… — Egerton Brydges Copy Share Image
The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I never wanted to write for writing alone, but for the story, for the characters, and most of all for the escape.” — Kimberly Humphreys Copy Share Image
I like writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It's therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
I loved everything. I read everything. Art and poetry and literature and trash and sci fi. I didn't know what I would… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
