Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
If I can write it, I can cope. And I've been writing many books, but in every book, I try to explore… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“What will happen to those who stone the prophets and persecute the masters? His fate is written in flaming letters on each… — Frank Harris Copy Share Image
Were writing, yes, but really slow ... We mainly get together and end up hanging out, and half the time nothing gets… — Isaac Brock Copy Share Image
“I love books. Not just for what they contain. I love them as objects too, as ever-present reminders of what they contain,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Picture books build readers, Mr. Leon. Two missing books from our collection is like two missing bricks from a cathedral.” — Kristin O'Donnell Tubb Copy Share Image
Good writing is often about trying to investigate something you feel is missing and trying to put it back. — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
“I noticed you made a bee-line for their bookcases." It is the oldest and most incorrigible trait of the book-lover.” — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
If you have some other profession that allows you your evenings or weekends, terrific, stick with that. Having a profession other than… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
“Writing is more fun when you have a partner, so find friends who share your research interests. Two authors can write faster,… — Paul J. Silvia Copy Share Image
People say, 'All my son will read is 'Captain Underpants,' or 'My son is crazy about shark books, is that O.K.?' I… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“It might have been brief, but so much of a kiss - a first kiss especially - is the moment before your… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
“The elevator doors opened, and I squeezed myself out before pulling out the Wardrober. It was heavy. “What do you have in… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
When I look back at my career as an author, I don't look at the first book that was ever published as… — Jarrett J. Krosoczka Copy Share Image
When I was eight I discovered 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe' by C S Lewis and it made me fall… — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
You don't go to the library and walk along and pick out a topic. You are riding the bus, or shopping at… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my… — Kajol Copy Share Image
As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang,… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
Following takes why. Transactions take what. It has to be real. It has to be the same for writing a book. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Of all the myths surrounding academic writing, the fallacy of effortless productivity is among the most persistent.” — Helen Sword Copy Share Image
“Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a job for visionaries… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
I begin every novel with the vow that I will not write about technology, Catholicism, or Hell. As you know, I end… — Richard Dooling Copy Share Image
Writing isn't something I do, writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“In fact a few simple mathematical calculations reveal that if reference librarians were paid at market rates for all the roles they… — Will Manley Copy Share Image
The best advice I can give to any aspiring author is to write every single day. Work at the craft of writing.… — Andrea Davis Pinkney Copy Share Image
Writing talent is similar to the art of chatting up a girl. You can improve to a certain degree through practice, but… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
For so long I didn't have any kind of readership at all - I'd get published, but not read - the idea… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
I write what feels real. I write things that are informed both by my own experience and by actual history. — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
I had the idea of a boy who was a wizard and didn't yet know what he was. I never sat down… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“The old nut goes, 'Write what you know,' but often a writer is clearer about what he doesn't know and must learn… — Susan Bell Copy Share Image
I've not got any terrible stories of what I had to do to scrabble my way to the top, obviously, because I… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
