Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it, the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with… — James Salter Copy Share Image
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you… — John Powell Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside. — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I can’t persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me, — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
He held the book up to his nose. It smelled like Old Spice talcum powder. Books that smelled that way were usually… — John Bellairs Copy Share Image
There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you are not sitting in this room, and I am not sitting by you. These are points in which a doubt… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, has to do with liberty of mind. The liberty to intuit, assess, be surprised, even to be ashamed and… — Laurie Sheck Copy Share Image
I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Those of us who obsess over every word and action are constantly recalling past events, but that doesn't make them any less… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
I think I personally, as a writer, read differently knowing how tough it is to write, knowing how challenging it is to… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
When I'm not writing, I feel an awareness that something's missing. If I go a long time, it becomes worse. I become… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
My problem is that I never get through the whole book. I skim through this one, that one, and then the other… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
“There are those who will laugh at those who read useful books, and yet there is little difference between those who cannot… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I never outline. I don't work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Every couple of years or so, when Daniel Clowes releases a new book, one can almost sense the rectal contraction across the… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
The writing life is one long, never-ending search for narrative. Well, it's not even a conscious searching. It happens even while you're… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“I have never known anything to be as exquisite or as excruciating as the Love-Hate relationship I have with writing.” — Tonny K. Brown Copy Share Image
“Dessy, don't grow up to be a writer. Because when you live too much in your own head, you neglect the people… — Kristen Tracy Copy Share Image
It's just like I get this identity crisis: my body doesn't want to write, my mind doesn't want to write. Nothing about… — Luke Temple Copy Share Image
“Writing is that strange calling which weighs so heavily on the soul yet brings much delight in its achievement.” — Nancy LaRonda Johnson Copy Share Image
“A writing tablet evidences the writer’s mind shadows, the dark twin that sketches the meandering of our conscious mind and taps into… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The first fiction I ever wrote was short stories. I was writing short stories in my late teens and early twenties, and… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
“For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
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