I lived in the library with my grandmother as a child. I still love the smell of books; the library card is… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
Intrigue is so much more effective. I don't like to be over-prescriptive of an audience. The same with a book or with… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Totally captivating. Starhawk has created a magic land to which we can return at will for the kind of exotic romance and… — Elinor Gadon Copy Share Image
I think you often have that sense when you write--that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
The experienced writer says to the anguished novice: 'Just do it; get something, anything, on to the screen or page, just establish… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Words of wisdom, the meaning of life,perhaps even the answer sought by Borges's librarians—all of these may wash over us every day,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I remember reading the book in high school and always thinking of Gatsby as this strong, stoic, suave, mysterious man who had… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
“For God sake write and don't worry about what the boys will say nor whether it will be a masterpiece nor what.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
People are used to streaming and binge-watching. When they see an author they like, if there's only one book, even if they… — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
I have never thought that I have sacrificed anything being a writer. That might not be true, maybe I have sacrificed something.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment. — William Trevor Copy Share Image
My love was always in books. I was just one of those avid readers. Films came later, but the stories were always… — Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to say is that a lot that lies behind being able to live the writing life is psychological and… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“I knew books to be objects that loved to cluster and form disordered piles, but here books seemed robbed of their zany… — Sheridan Hay Copy Share Image
When literature is discovered, a revelation occurs: the joyful, exultant knowledge that anything can happen. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“A good novel is the biography of an imaginary person--and when the biography is completed, the person is no longer imaginary; he… — William Edmund Barrett Copy Share Image
I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
“marked #3. It was going to be her home for the next ten days, while she basked in the freedom to do… — C.J. Hunt Copy Share Image
My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write things in… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives. — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Only lawyers would refer to something as a brief that takes hours/days/weeks to write and is 30 pages long. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“When you read a novel, it seems that everything is clear, trite and understandable. But when you yourself fall in love, you… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
“A book lay overturned on the floor beside the bed, its hard cover collecting dust. Great Expectations.” — Jaime Jo Wright Copy Share Image
When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that… — Brian Moore Copy Share Image
Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
The best part of all, the absolutely most delicious part, is finishing it and then doing it over I rewrite a lot,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some… — Mary Matalin Copy Share Image
