It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive. — George Hamilton Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel I'm a sort of cult writer, rather than a mainstream writer, in that those who like my stuff like… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
I used a video camera, and shot on film cameras at school and stuff, but I had a lot more training as… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
“Perdu reflected that it was a common misconception that booksellers looked after books. They look after people. —” — Nina George Copy Share Image
Writing is a sad process, sitting on your ass for many, many hours, alone in a room, smelling like coffee, sadness and… — Amy Sherman-Palladino Copy Share Image
When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
The librarians that I've spoken to, the teachers and the librarians who really care and do advise parents and children of what's… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
“In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
If you directly try to write about an idea, it will never be what you imagined. But if you're imagining through the… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
I think every writer has their waves of inspiration and their ways of doing things. But writing is very difficult for me.… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn’t want to be a writer. I wanted to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“She said I owned the clothes of a radiologist and the shoes of an OBGYN; which is like the medical doctor equivalent… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
LIFE is Like A Book, You All Read It. Love is A Blessing, You All Need It. Life is Too Short, Live… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Anybody who writes knows the horrible, wonderful, beautiful foulness that comes every week. A lot of moaning, screaming agony - "Oh my… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The story that I'm telling in 'Homecoming King' about falling in love, these are things that happened to me - that actually… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
One of the most important elements of my identity is my identity as a reader. I love to read - really, if… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
Writers have a reputation for being distracted. That's because writers are distracted. They are always tuned into that other voice, the one… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this… — John Redwood Copy Share Image
Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a means of, 'Here's an… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
If you're trying to write about very strong horror, very strong fear or very strong emotion, it's easy to overwrite it. — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
Some writing programs are very much like, you come in, and you have a niche that becomes yours, and, you know, you're… — Jennifer Konner Copy Share Image
The art and act of writing - speaking just for myself - involves getting your proverbial ass in the proverbial chair. — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
“As always with the greatest works, the novel is so many-sided that over time it mirrors back the shifting concerns of those… — Carl F. Hovde Copy Share Image
I can't describe what I do, I just potter along. But I do like the notion of an essay, something that can… — Hito Steyerl Copy Share Image
For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
The album cover of 'Death of a Bachelor' is me on my roof of my backyard, so that's my place where I… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
When we talk about books, we rarely talk about the economic side of writing, especially of writing literary works, and that, at… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“Like a good American, I wanted to sue somebody. But like a good librarian, I just sat at my desk and waited.” — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
