“Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
“Find tricks to keep yourself going,” William Least Heat Moon once advised a group of aspiring writers. “Anything you can do to… — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
In some respects, big ideas can be a bit too big for a short story - especially if you've only got a… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read… — Erika Johansen Copy Share Image
If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
The writer and the director are ultimately responsible for what is portrayed and glorified in a film. Then comes the producer. — Parvathy Copy Share Image
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“Any writer who waits for inspiration to strike will never finish a book. Inspiration is all very well but it will never… — Barbara Michaels Copy Share Image
“Private libraries were extraordinary, Lady Elspeth de Moray mused. To have an entire room filled with books--- in one's own house ---… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
I wrote because I could not help it. There was something that I wanted to say, and I said it: that was… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Write about just one thing, I have said, and there is wisdom in this advice...And yet, there is wisdom also in William… — Lucy Calkins Copy Share Image
I feel as though I never had choice not to be a writer. I feel in my heart of hearts that writing… — Jerdine Nolen Copy Share Image
“To write entire pages of dazzling prose about a tomato -- for Pierre Arthens reviews food as if he were telling a… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
The prosperity of a book lies in the minds of readers. Public knowledge and public taste fluctuate; and there come times when… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often… — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
“Life is like a book starts with title similar to your personal names, begins to give you pleasure with each and every… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“The sharing of a book is a statement—a message of affection that is also an act of self-revelation. Join my club, it… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it — Garry Marshall Copy Share Image
I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing. — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
“Writing is a conduit. It opens up a passageway into the past. Not just for the writer, but for the reader too.… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for… — Arthur Hailey Copy Share Image
His eyes gravitated towards the wall-to-wall bookshelf at one end of the room. 'You folks like books, I see. — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
“No shame in having a ghostwriter," Storm said. "Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose… — Richard Castle Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
I don't want to come over as some boringly self-deprecating person. But I don't see myself as a groundbreaking writer in the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
A lot of times if I'm writing, if something is awesome, something in me wants to go like, it's awesome. Let's stop.… — Edi Patterson Copy Share Image
My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“If you have a story inside you but don't know where to start, look within and write from the heart, for the… — Shanda Trofe Write from the Heart Copy Share Image
I never had a plan to be a fiction writer. It's something that happened to me. Sometimes I think maybe it was… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Just get all of your ideas down. To me, writing is therapy and a way to clear your mind and step into… — Nick Cannon Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
“A happy childhood can fortify one against the ravages of life, and part of that happiness is found in books, which become… — Suzy Davies Copy Share Image
Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A home without books is like a room without windows.” — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“The Alice books belong to a branch of literature that speaks deeply and clearly to the human psyche--stories of the journey.” — Stephanie Lovett Stoffel Copy Share Image
It’s not the fear of writing that blocks people, it’s fear of not writing well; something quite different. — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
