“how can I write about this when I am afraid of not having time to finish and of stirring up all these… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in… — David Hare Copy Share Image
Write your feeling like resentment and problems to the piece of paper, to remove the heavy feeling in your heart. — Mitch Alapan 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
“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
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
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
In my later novels, I systematically used the convention, and then a moment came - when did it come? With The Book… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Book publishing was never a heaven "run by editors", and it is by no means today a hell "run by accountants." If… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying… — A. Edward Newton Copy Share Image
For me, it's a way to find a fiction within a fiction. To find a way to uncover that blunder within the… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
"The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good;" and without claiming for an instant that title of good for my book,… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
“I don’t have bionic arms, and I have absolutely no stamina. Once I rubbed out the penciled-in marginalia of a hundred pages… — Scarlett Thomas 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
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'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
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
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 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“...maybe great books were coiled within him like springs, books that could have separated inside from outside.” — Jonathan Safran Foer 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
“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
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
Not every child takes instantly to books like a duck to water, but I don’t believe there are children who hate books.… — Amanda Craig Copy Share Image
I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books to be read aloud,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
