“No better stress reliever than to sit down and write! Let your imagination take you to other places and another time!” — Rosanne Bittner Copy Share Image
Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I'm a successful novelist, and I've been a lucky one, so I don't want to cry the poor mouth. Writing has never… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
As I tell my intro creative writing students, after reading someone you love, wait at least an hour before starting to write. — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Real life is generally very haphazard in its plotting, and I think a lot of people lament that, and turn to fiction… — Tim Powers Copy Share Image
Some people act as if it were demeaning to their manhood to wish to be well-read but you can no more be… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Writing helps us heal in certain way, but it doesn't make the experience of thinking about writing that occasion any less painful.… — Sarah Gerard Copy Share Image
Man no longer dreams over a book in which a soft voice, a constant companion, observes, exhorts, or sighs with him through… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
A book is not necessarily made of paper. A book is not necessarily made to be read on a Kindle. A book… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“There’s more mystical nonsense written about the process of writing than almost anything. Inspiration, genius, “the muse.” So I want to lay… — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just… — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have… — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
“The whole point of straws, I had thought, was that you did not have to set down the slice of pizza to… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I sometimes look at my bookshelves today and wonder which volumes my sons will treasure in twenty or thirty years. Which should… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I am surprised to see how much I have written; with stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
We are living in an era of such interesting new forms, and certainly narrative non-fiction has emerged as a major form. People… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and… — Virginia Hamilton Copy Share Image
The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep… — Lauren Tarshis Copy Share Image
Holding women to the idea of 'write what you know' subtly reinforces the status quo. Writing is a chance to celebrate who… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
You have to have passion for a subject to write about it. You can't expect your readers to feel any excitement if… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to… — Lawrence Kasdan Copy Share Image
“Prospero wanted to drowm his book. I just threw mine across the room and jumped on it a couple of times.” — John Beamish Copy Share Image
Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging. — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
“A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“If only we could reach back before the concept, could write on a level with the senses, record the infinitesimal variations of… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The bane of my existence is the synopses that publishers request for a new novel or series. That's where I'm really producing… — Michelle Gagnon Copy Share Image
