“Mom always says you can solve most problems at the library, and there's a lady there who's my friend. We could ask… — Laurel Snyder Copy Share Image
“a first encounter with a worthwhile book is never a complete encounter, and we are usually in error to make it a… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
There are a lot of writers who find a groove and spend a career mining that vein. I seem to be exactly… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
“I think good promotion is every bit as important as a good product. I consider it arrogant to assume the world will… — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
I must not step into too spruce a style for serious matters; and yet I approve not the dull insipid way of… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“Try to avoid your house catching fire, as this does no good at all. And while your house is still intact, it… — Joseph Connolly Copy Share Image
We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
“To read is to struggle to name, to subject the sentences of a text to a semantic transformation. This transformation is erratic;… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
We're completely confused about the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. To me, the moment you compose, you're fictionalising; the moment you remember,… — David Shields Copy Share Image
I walked into the local library and asked the librarian do you've any books on the meaning of life? And she said… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together,… — Dick Bruna Copy Share Image
My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
My writing method is to sit in a very small hut absolutely alone. I write in total solitude. And I write on… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“Writing is more than a craft; it is a way of life. Everything you see or do becomes part of what you… — H.P. Oliver Copy Share Image
Authors frequently say things they are unaware of; only after they have gotten the reactions of their readers do they discover what… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I write every day. It's lovely when that's happening. One day dovetailing into the next. Sometimes I don't even… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.” — Ross McDonald Copy Share Image
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“A deadline gets a writer's work done done better and faster than any inspiration, if only because inspirations don't always come, but… — AA Patawaran Copy Share Image
“David Foster Wallace: We sit around and bitch about how TV has ruined the audience for reading—when really all it’s done is… — David Lipsky Copy Share Image
Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand. — Steven Amsterdam Copy Share Image
Most people, or at least most of the people that I've come into contact with, would like to be written about. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
I believe that anyone who doesn't read remains dumb. Even if they know how, failing to regularly ingest the written word dooms… — Edward Bunker Copy Share Image
I like the idea of being a novelist. I picture myself on the coast, the wind in my hair, horses galloping around… — Sara Cox Copy Share Image
“When you write, you are telling a story...to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself...over and over again.” — Kai Strand Copy Share Image
“In writing, as in life, its not the big words that are the problem its the little minds that read them.” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
