Originally I was going to write a fashion style guide, but then my publishers suggested I write a novel instead. — Tinsley Mortimer Copy Share Image
One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there. — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
Most fiction writers are driven to find their own 'voice,' but I am more interested in the voices of others. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“When I read the actual story-how Gatsby loves Daisy so much but can't ever be with her no matter how hard he… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“You get no writing done at all if you sit at a table with a view. You'd spent the whole time watching… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“Do not insult a writer by asking him questions related to books written by someone else. If you are not reading the… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he wrote equations, or musical notation, sometimes he wrote in Latin; he refused to tell her what it was about. "Nothing,"… — Gwendolen Gross Copy Share Image
I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
“They are the lost books,” he turned his head, grasping his cane and raising it aloft, as if speaking more to the… — Darius Jones Copy Share Image
A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Just writing a lot doesn't necessarily make you a better writer. You have to hear yourself as a writer, and the best… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society. — Guo Moruo Copy Share Image
When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“I spent the morning reading Ovid. I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“Because there is a belief that once you begin to open books, you will become a better person. It is Pandora's box,… — Don Borchert Copy Share Image
Oh, very well, do you want to know why I really think you should keep a journal?" She nodded. "Because someday you're… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“I have inherited fragrance of classic books. Drilling the wall for light, hair tied to a beam in fear of drowsing, I… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
When you read books, you kind of create that whole world in your mind, and you go on a journey with the… — Mary Steenburgen Copy Share Image
(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none… — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
One of the most satisfying aspects of writing is that it can open in us deep wells of hidden treasures that are… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
