“The Bibliotheque du Roi then gives you the closest thing that currently exists to God's understanding of the world." "And yet with… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
“ A Touch of Crimson will rock readers with a stunning new world, a hot-blooded hero, and a strong, kick-ass heroine. This… — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
“Your job as a writer is to say as truthfully as you can what you see and how you feel. Writing is… — Danelle Morton Copy Share Image
Scholarship cannot do without literature… It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race,… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write,… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a… — Bryan Burrough Copy Share Image
This is a stamina game, so don't despair if you run down a blind alley and have to start over, or if… — Tim Maleeny Copy Share Image
America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
The reason I'm here today, the reason I own a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle and the reason I have a big log… — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image
Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold… — Sara Nelson Copy Share Image
“Books are the ultimate ride-or-die companions. They’re always there, never cancel plans, and don’t care if you’re in your pajamas. They offer… — Life is Positive Copy Share Image
I'm an avid reader myself, and what any one reader accesses at any one time is very powerful and personal to them.… — Darren Boyd Copy Share Image
“Trying to read slowly when you haven't had time to read is like holding back hunger. It's like having a meal in… — Laura Hendrie Copy Share Image
Librarians are serious people, seldomgiven to idle jocularity. The reason for this, I believe, is because we are overwhelmed by the enormous… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I used to be a good story writer. I could make up a story with like, eight people in it and tell… — Danielle Bregoli Copy Share Image
I was 35 when I started writing Shadow and Bone,' and my only goal was to finish a book because I had… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Sajib: That's a good point. I find mslyef passing on novels over 400 pages these days. There's just not enough time. Thank… — Arman Copy Share Image
I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up… — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
Behold, I am writing anew, through scribes on Earth who are willing to listen to me again with new ears, in the… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift. — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Fiction can, and should, mimic life, with all its messes and discomfort and disquiet. Fiction should also prove just how complicated and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you feel caught in the web of childhood abuse, find words to describe it. Write them. Say them. Express them. In… — Jeanne McElvaney Copy Share Image
The experience you're going to take the audience on is as important as the story you're trying to tell. And that experience… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
“All of reading is really only finding ways to name ourselves, and, perhaps, to name the others around us so that they… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
There are very few instances where writers have also been effective image makers - different skill sets are required. — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
Let's not pretend there isn't a huge industry driven by the choices made by editors and writers who decide what a story… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
“Write a little. Read a little. Dick around on the internet. Post something to Pinterest or Facebook. Text a friend. Write some… — Katrina Monroe Copy Share Image
“Fans are to be greatly appreciated because without them, you're pretty much writing only for yourself.” — Bea Cannon Copy Share Image
The novelist can't successfully depict such horrifying reality. But she can, and must, try, to bear witness. There are many ways of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
You don't know what can happen tomorrow. Life is like a novel, isn't it? It's filled with suspense. You never know what's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
