I've heard a lot of editors and agents say, "If the book is good, it will get published." I totally disagree with… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence. — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind… — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books. — Jackie French Copy Share Image
I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
When the writing is going really well, whole days and weeks go by, and I suddenly realise I have all these unpaid… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Graham Wallas has reminded us that writing as compared with speaking involves an impression at the second remove and reading an impression… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
I'm superstitious about the paper that I use, for example. I've written all my novels on a paper of a particular size… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I have always written - since I was a kid. I might say that I am essentially a writer who is bored… — Jasmila Zbanic Copy Share Image
“I turn sentences around. That’s my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“I fear the day when the technos decide that paper books are obsolete and we are reading from PC screens and iPods… — Suzanne Somers Copy Share Image
It's nice being married to someone who likes to read because you can indulge in geeky conversations about books. — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
“If I have to wait, I read; if I wake in the night, I feel along the shelf for a book. Swelling,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I really spend as long as I can sketching everything out and working on the structure before I sit down to type… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
“The mind of the writer invite readers to new worlds, where their darkest fears and greatest joys explode into a tapestry of… — David Smith Copy Share Image
Can fiction teach us? Absolutely. Fiction has the power to illustrate place, era, and atmosphere in vivid detail. But it is not… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Like skateboarders, writers live by rejection; like writers, any skater worth his salt must have the single-minded tenacity of a wiener dog. — Bret Anthony Johnston Copy Share Image
“After publishing a book, start writing the next. And repeat. Don't get hung up on overmarketing the books, focus more on getting… — Crissi Langwell Copy Share Image
“How can you keep up with her, this woman who is always reading another book besides the one before her eyes, a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon,… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Writing is like pulling your hair out. You have nothing, and you can't think of anything, but you have to think of… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The greatest compliment I get about my writing is when people say, 'How did you know so much about me?' And of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Victoria Roberts spins an exciting Highland tale of intrigue, betrayal, and love with a braw Highland hero and strong English heroine any… — Hannah Howell Copy Share Image
Nothing I force myself to write about ever turns out well, and so I've learned to wait for the voice, the incident,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My life in general, orderly or not, it allows me more freedom in my own writing. Sometimes I wonder, though - I… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
I love Dave Eggers. I hate Dave Eggers. If I could become any other living writer, I would answer faster than anyone… — James Bernard Frost Copy Share Image
“I Love Books. I love that moment when you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
Were I to write what I know, the book would be too sensational to print, but were I to write what I… — Ina Coolbrith Copy Share Image
