Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“With a book, she could at least visit with people, even if it was vicariously, even if they didn't exist beyond someone's… — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
“Reading is like therapy; the characters are the therapist, their world is their office, and the adventures are the sessions.” — Jordan Bowers Copy Share Image
I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the… — Andrea Arnold Copy Share Image
I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Friends are animated books. They are a completely delightful, absolutely painless means of continuing one's education. — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
“In the sense, that is, that the author who created us alive no longer wished, or was no longer able, materially to… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
The shimmering, lucid tones and silver melancholy of I'll Be Right There give readers a South Korea peopled with citizens fighting for… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
Remember you love writing. It wouldn't be worth it if you didn't. If the love fades, do what you need to and… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Philip Roth is a fabulous writer, but he pretty much stays within his own life. He's so good - I mean, practically… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“It’s tempting to see books the way we see gadgets: that we need the very latest, most up-to-date version. But just because… — Ella Berthoud & Susan Elderkin Copy Share Image
Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“A library of mostly unread books is far more inspiring than a library of books already read. There’s nothing more exciting than… — Gabe Habash Copy Share Image
It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“Let's go downtown," Dad said. "By the public library. You never know what wild and crazy things might be happening at the… — Marion Jensen Copy Share Image
“I want to read every book that’s written hear every song that was sung I want to gaze at every cloud and… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage.… — Jim McKelvey Copy Share Image
To say 'A High Wind in Jamaica' is a novel about children who are abducted by pirates is to make it seem… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“She stamped the book and gave it to me. "You bring it back in three weeks." I held it over my heart.… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“I write for a purpose. I was born to use papers and books to speak up. I was born to use my… — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
I started writing nonfiction because nonfiction is well-suited to subjects that, if you wrote them as fiction, people would say, "I don't… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
“Literature has been our salvation, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.” — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I always think that my assignment is to seek out stories that are experienced by people who don't get the ticket for… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think I've finally learned to stop worrying about how big the gaps are between my novels' publication. — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers… — Hugh Walpole Copy Share Image
If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts. — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of… — Leslie Banks Copy Share Image
You constantly have to take inventory, not get on someone else's agenda. You want to write something that's poignant and moves people. — Dion DiMucci Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Hardwick told me once that all her first drafts sounded as if a chicken had written them. So do mine for… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
