“You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more." ( "The Castle" )” — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Channel Orange' in two weeks. The end product wasn't always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened. — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful. — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Vacation reading is not a new concept. Ever since the 19th century, when novels were considered relatively sinful indulgences, leisure and fiction-reading… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
I love reading. I spend a huge amount of time travelling on planes and have always got a book on the go. — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Hey! I get to sleep in a library and read books all night! Without pity, where would I be? I'm a total… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
“My best advice about writer’s block is: the reason you’re having a hard time writing is because of a conflict between the… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“It is fascinating that Baghdad had more than 100 public libraries in the year 891, Cordoba had 70 public libraries at the… — Balqis Suja Copy Share Image
I've never had a block. I'm talking within the limits of my abilities. But in my own small way, I've had an… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It happened, as many things do, imperceptibly, in many ways at once. I date it - the slow crumbling of my faith,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He was always being told that writers never become famous or rich, but of course that was not why he wrote, he… — Andrew James Pritchard Copy Share Image
The novel at its nineteenth-century pinnacle was a Judaized novel: George Eliot and Dickens and Tolstoy were all touched by the Jewish… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“I have lived in worlds beyond counting and countries as strange and wonderful as the dance of dust in sunbeams, because I… — Garon Whited Copy Share Image
I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldnt turn off the outside world to the extent that I can… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Writing sucks. I think it's terrible. Writing is not fun, and don't trust anyone who claims to enjoy it. Liars! — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
As much as I'm enjoying stuff out here in Hollywood, I will always think of myself as a comic-book writer who does… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
“... a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
When someone says to me, 'I love your book - I read it in a day,' I want to tell them to… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I spill it out as fast as I can. I don’t really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London,… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation,… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
If I wish to be well in my mind, then I must write, and there is no cure for my ambition, and… — Sally O'Reilly Copy Share Image
David Arnold's writing is both heartfelt and hilarious. You will fall in love with Mim, even as her grand journey will keep… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
“The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley;” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, ... but they are, singly, as nothing without the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
On the floor by my bed, there are heaps of books I want to read, books I have to read, and books… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
Lit majors are not known for watching where they're going; most of us walk with our eyes in a book instead of… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
