My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly… — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
The writing workshops and programs that are everywhere have encouraged writing. And if that produces more writing, it's also producing more readers… — James Salter Copy Share Image
It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching - it is what the books will get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I found it instructive and highly constructive as a writer to go to a point of disaster and come out with a… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
“Wicked people never have time for reading,” Dewey said. “It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Whenever I meet people for the first time, I assume that they have a great story to tell and that it's my… — Sarah Ferguson Copy Share Image
So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
The characters in a novel are made up, figments of the writer's imagination. I'm sure this won't come as a surprise to… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
“I've never heard a writer feel that way about a device with a screen. Oh sure, they're functional, practical. We would be… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
You read, move your lips, figure out the words, and it's like you're in two places at the same time: you're sitting… — Tatyana Tolstaya Copy Share Image
We are writers. We danced with words, as children, in what became familiar patterns. The words became our friends and our companions,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks.… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I despair of ever getting it through anybody's head I am not interested in bookshops, I am interested in what's written in… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don't let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won't matter to you… — Esther Freud Copy Share Image
I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
I can't stay engaged for years with a book unless it has feelings. It can't be an idea for me - it… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
“A book is not a battle, nor is it a conquest. A book is a story, and telling it should be an… — Rachel Aaron Copy Share Image
“Empathy, the way that we can place ourselves, imaginatively, in the position of another person, is at the heart of what we… — Brenda Walker Copy Share Image
“Literature "has always been the last refuge, in this world, for those who do not know where to lay their dreaming heads.” — Romaine Gary Copy Share Image
The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
I've only written stand-up and sketch before, so writing something long-form on my own is proving quite difficult. But I'm enjoying it… — Diane Morgan Copy Share Image
“Reading is the life-saving water for our minds. Drink pure words as much as you need and remain alive!” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
Even when I cannot write, I know I am still a writer, just the way I know I am still sexual even… — Olga Broumas Copy Share Image
Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday,… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
For me, a trans writer, Knausgaard taught me about writing shame as liberation from it - a literary version of the kind… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
I won't even try to predict the specifics, but I think the ebook - as a medium - could be a game-changer. — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
“Books allow a person to think outside of the box. They allow reflections and contemplation. So read them while thinking is still… — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
“We are also creatures of romance. Books love to portray us as the mysterious visitor in the night that you invite into… — Isabelle Rowan Copy Share Image
“The broken spine of the book shows the webbing of binder's string, and my fingers have worn white spots in the cover.” — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
The whole point of reading is that the writer is speaking to you, and if you're not listening, you're not going to… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
