Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every book I learn something… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I keep 'The Paper Bag Princess' by Robert Munsch on my shelf to remind me that my prince will love me no… — Brittany Snow Copy Share Image
One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Originally I was going to write a fashion style guide, but then my publishers suggested I write a novel instead. — Tinsley Mortimer Copy Share Image
“Every once in a while you come across a novel that reminds you why you think you enjoy reading in the first… — Graham Parke Copy Share Image
What literature brings to our times is always the fact that literature refuses to bring any simple or easy answers. — Sjon Copy Share Image
I write intuitively, and with most of my plays, I don't know what is always going to happen. This means I can… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
“Without any warning, tears filled my eyes. No one had ever given me such a kind and thoughtful gift before. I pictured… — Sharon Biggs Waller Copy Share Image
“Asking a writer why they like to write {in the theoretical sense of the question} is like asking a person why they… — Rachel Heffington Copy Share Image
Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I like things that reach a little further and are a little more abstract, but I don't think that's what I do… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“A librarian had found the baby sitting abandoned on the sheer edge of the world; the librarians kept her. That proved shrewd.… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
I always like it when writers posit writing as an act of empathy. It's such a grand turn of phrase, such a… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there. — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Just writing a lot doesn't necessarily make you a better writer. You have to hear yourself as a writer, and the best… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Most fiction writers are driven to find their own 'voice,' but I am more interested in the voices of others. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society. — Guo Moruo Copy Share Image
If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“I spent the morning reading Ovid. I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Oh, very well, do you want to know why I really think you should keep a journal?" She nodded. "Because someday you're… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“Because there is a belief that once you begin to open books, you will become a better person. It is Pandora's box,… — Don Borchert Copy Share Image
When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you read books, you kind of create that whole world in your mind, and you go on a journey with the… — Mary Steenburgen Copy Share Image
Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“I have inherited fragrance of classic books. Drilling the wall for light, hair tied to a beam in fear of drowsing, I… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
One of the most satisfying aspects of writing is that it can open in us deep wells of hidden treasures that are… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
