I felt that no self-help book had been written for millennials yet, so my ultimate goal was to write it. — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never had a moment of wanting to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress, but writing was just a… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The cover, thickness and knowledge in a book often has little value, the secret is to know when to turn the page. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I want literature to open all the doors that I can't open by myself, and to allow me to see things that… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not,… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
I write anywhere - when I have an idea, it's hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
“Sophie was neither a virgin nor a prude, despite what people might otherwise assume about librarians. On the contrary, if people knew… — Bella Andre Copy Share Image
Writing is an act of hope. It means carving order out of chaos, of challenging one's own beliefs and assumptions, of facing… — Jack Heffron Copy Share Image
I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield,… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
I realized that we don't travel in such a linear way anymore but rather jump from one point to another and back… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
I'm now much more excited about genre distinctions. What I still see breaking down are more the hierarchical arrangements of genres. That… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“And Yet the Books And yet the books will be there on the shelves, separate beings, That appeared once, still wet As… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
Right now-whether you're in writing courses getting "paid" in credit for writing, or burdened and distracted by earning a living and changing… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I write for the still-fragmented parts in me, trying to bring them together. Whoever can read and use any of this, I… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“When a day goes by and I haven't written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about.” — P.S. Bartlett Copy Share Image
I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers. — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
'In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
“When you are writing, you must treat it as the most important thing in the world, even when you know it is… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I write every day for most of the work day, and I try to write 2,500 words per day... If I don't… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be,… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know,… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
“Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation. ” — Patrick Dennis Copy Share Image
I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell… — Irwin Winkler Copy Share Image
“With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I'm tempted to shove one of my romance novels up your ass"- P.J. said sharply "But I love my books too much… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
Being a writer means I sit in a dark (and pretty dank) room off my garage for many hours a day, and… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
