“The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Writing is the most demanding of callings, more harrowing than a warrior's, more lonely than a whaling captain's-that, in essence, is the… — Melvin Maddocks Copy Share Image
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition. — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
There's that process of writing it - then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
There's a book called 'Where The Wild Things Are,' by American writer Maurice Sendak... it really is the most sublime book. It's… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was 9. My mother told me it was before that, but that was the first I remember. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious,… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“What are you reading?" She replied without once taking her eyes off the page. "I am reading the sort of sentimental novel… — Maya Rodale Copy Share Image
All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“To the people who insist they really do have a great idea but they just can't write, I'd say that given some… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“I wake up and read although Nietzsche says that’s foolish. A sort of narcotic, reading. I read with my hands down the… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“...maybe great books were coiled within him like springs, books that could have separated inside from outside.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough? — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“Long into my career I harbored a secret sense that thinking and reading and writing, as much as I loved them, did… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I write about what worries me and, hopefully, things worry me a little bit earlier than they do some other people, purely… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
“From my writer's workshop, "Know when it's time to put everything you've got on the page. Then, rip open a vein and… — Heather Burch Copy Share Image
“The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained form actual life is… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
“I wanted to read all these books, but I would have to have been in a rest home or something to do… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“I'm visualizing the letters that make up your name, but my brain has written it in Courier and the font size is… — Chelsea Martin Copy Share Image
As a writer, I think your first job is to find a subject that you think you and others will find inherently… — Stuart Blumberg Copy Share Image
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
My life has been such a blur since I was 18, 19 years old. I haven't even had time to contemplate my… — Grant Achatz Copy Share Image
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The library spilled onto the floor and into the other rooms. Some books held up wobbly tables, others were literally swept under… — Michael Buckley Copy Share Image
I first told the idea to an editor I had met who, after reading one of my novels for adults that was… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I skip the introduction. If the book goes in the trash, I want it to go because of my thoughts on it,… — James Frey Copy Share Image
“The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
