I'm a great planner, so before I ever write chapter 1, I work out what happens in every chapter and who the… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul. — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
I always liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn't have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat. — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“Leases, writes, statutes, all are written to be read and each person reads them by the light of self-interest.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life. — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
I don't know what will happen to the physical book and what it will mean for authors. I worry whether it will… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I never had a plan, except to write. I love what I do, and have from the beginning. Loving what you do… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Palgolak was a god of knowledge. ... He was an amiable, pleasant deity, a sage whose existence was entirely devoted to the… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You will stay up all night reading this brilliant and devastating novel the way you might have with a new best friend… — Julie Orringer Copy Share Image
G.K. Chesterton once said: If something is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. I live by this philosophy when I teach… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land… — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability. — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
There's something I find highly embarrassing about it. As soon as I think I've written something smart, the next day I've got… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
“Even though I know my own name (barely), I still sometimes write my name wrong. Usually it only happens when I write… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Imogen was a bright girl naturally, but she had read so many novels that her brain was completely turned.” — Susan Coolidge Copy Share Image
And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I… — Joshua Slocum Copy Share Image
They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly. — John Irving Copy Share Image
Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence. — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
“My lips are fierce with passion. My heart spins fiery beats. A rhythm lives within my fingers and dances in my feet.” — Jamie Weise Copy Share Image
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Especially since having children, a lot of the time if you ask me, 'Have you read that book?' the answer would be… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
My children's books are written on the belief that every child has a talent and a passion. Each story unfolds into an… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
One of my favorite books is 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' by George Orwell, and 'Catcher in the Rye,' obviously, is a big influence and… — Hozier Copy Share Image
Sometimes life just seems like chapters. Some good, some bad, but all come together to create the story of our lives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“You're such a bookworm," Fenn said, shaking his head as he counted the books in my hand. "No," I corrected "I just… — Candace Knoebel Copy Share Image
It's a very powerful, emotional thing to read a book, and to reduce it to a series of questions in a test… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I think that any writer who is commercial, who sells a lot of books, has to face criticism. Because the more hermetic… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
People are rushed and inspired by the success of Indian writers, and are falling over themselves to write novels. Every Indian is… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life,… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
