“One thing that separates would-be writers from working writers is that the latter know their work will never match their dreams.” — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it, and you look at… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“SOYINKA WON THE NOBEL PRIZE ACHEBE, LITERARY COMMANDER P.D. JAMES, WE LOVE HER AGATHA CHRISTIE, QUEEN OF CRIME” — S. A. David Copy Share Image
I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
“You see, I believe that you cannot be taught to 'write.' You can be taught grammar and punctuation, but you cannot be… — Robert J. Randisi Copy Share Image
“I never have time to write, and I always have a thousand distractions in my way. But still, I write. I write… — Aaron B. Powell Copy Share Image
Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I've always loved journaling as a way to clear my mind. Whether I'm traveling or at home, the first thing I do… — Gloria Reuben Copy Share Image
“What is reading, in the last analysis, but an interchange of thought between writer and reader? If the book enters the reader's… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
One of my greatest sources of pride as president of the New York Public Library is the continuance of the library's open,… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to… — Lori Lansens Copy Share Image
The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions. — John Updike Copy Share Image
'Lonesome Dove' by Larry McMurtry and 'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver have stuck with me throughout my life, and I think… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
If we declare ourselves, as readers, to be on the side of life, the question has to be asked what sort of… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“A worry journal by your bedside can act as a mental depository of your anxieties, and once you write them down, you… — Suhas G. Kshirsagar Copy Share Image
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“When an idea suddenly appears I feel compelled to get it on paper and I keep writing until the flame disappears. Love… — Lee Bumbicka Copy Share Image
“I have learned one lesson as a writer...keep writing and never throw any notes away. Written parts that can't be used today...may… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
That's all you have to ask from yourself writing a book. That it's the best you can do and that you did… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Generations of thinkers have made typewriters their frenemies, and long before there were Gmail inboxes, print correspondence stacked up, some hastily written… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand. — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.” — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write every day if I can. I think the idea is to try and chip away at it as… — Wesley Schultz Copy Share Image
I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'. — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
“Kafka noted in a letter to his friend Oskar Pollak that “some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s… — David Mikics Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge I think every publisher is facing is how do we get readers to pay for content? So we're constantly… — Maria Rodale Copy Share Image
