I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Sylvie’s knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, ‘The sign that one has acquired one’s learning from reading novels rather than an… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
Fenworth owned a world-famous library. More rooms held books than beds. Pillows stuffed in niches and comfortable chairs scattered throughout each room… — Donita K. Paul Copy Share Image
A novel is a collision of ideas. Three or four threads may be floating around in the writer's consciousness, and at a… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
The way that I process and make writing work is I'm really telling true stories; I'm just putting them in a cape… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“So maybe the Reading Room is magic because books really are magic. I read once that books bend both space and time,… — Kelly Barnhill Copy Share Image
“Book love, my friend, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“spiritual practice is conspiratorial rather than inspirational; it conspires to strip away everything you use to maintain the illusion of certainty, security,… — Rami Shapiro Copy Share Image
“It must take a lot of self-discipline,' she said. 'Oh, I don't know. I don't have much.' He felt himself about to… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
I never think about issues when I'm working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
A lot of people work really diligently to maintain a "profile" in the writing world, but that's so hard, and so boring… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Through books you can start today where the great thinkers of yesterday left off, because books have immortalized man's knowledge. Thinkers, dead… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
“An elegantly crafted novel, "The Reluctant First Lady" clearly documents author Venita Ellick as an exceptionally accomplished writer able to skillfully weave… — Midwest Book Review August 2013 Copy Share Image
“It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then the books themselves inform… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was “Everything… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation. — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Life is like a book; Don't jump to the end to see if it's worth it. Just enjoy life and fill the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Always refer your sadness as the end of a page, where you are frustrate to write anything in those last 2-3 lines,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
“All truth is fiction, really, for the teller tells it as he sees it, and it might be different from some other… — Witi Ihimaera Copy Share Image
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I've been able to write at least one book a year for 20 years, and I don't think I would've had that… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“(At this point some readers are quite likely to close this book and never open it again … but I hope you… — Brian Zahnd Copy Share Image
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
“Talking about ideas for a novel is a bit like showing pictures of the ultrasound if you're pregnant. Until they're out in… — Clare Boylan Copy Share Image
“You wrote a fucking book. Do you know how many people wish they could do that, or how many people talk about… — Rachel Lynn Solomon Copy Share Image
You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
I'll borrow words from all my favourite paragraphs, to write about all of these faded things we hope would mean the most… — Mayday Parade Copy Share Image
People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I am glad I have found a readership, but one can't write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I'm looking forward… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
