Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money. — Moliere Copy Share Image
I don't think it's good to say that you won't do certain things, but I don't necessarily have the natural urge to… — Alia Shawkat Copy Share Image
There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Writing without words? Its not easy, I tell you! I stab the pen into my heart and let the blood flow. No… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book. — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
I see publishers bemoaning their fate and saying that this is the end of publishing. No! Publishers will recreate themselves. Some of… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors,… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
This thought-provoking novel portrays the absurdity of our overbearing government bureaucracy with a story that is entertaining and fast-paced. The Taxman Cometh… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
“Or perhaps it was the crying woman's mention of the unread library books, because truly there was nothing sadder, except a gift… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
“I never presume to give advice on writing. I think the best way to learn to write is to read books and… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
“My mother says that reading is thinking,’ Sofia said. ‘Not that we read and then we think, but rather that we think… — Ricardo Piglia Copy Share Image
A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
A girl named Rachel transformed my childhood. Life was safe, suburban and comfortable, but ours was a home without books. I met… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
Amid the push to excellence, with its measurement and accountability, it is easy to lose sight of a key ingredient in reading… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
“The typewriter is neat and compact and sturdy and blue, just the right machine to pound out a missive of love. When… — Yvette Walker Copy Share Image
“Y'know, if anyone happens to know the name of a good literary agent that will actually return phone calls...” — Rob Steele Copy Share Image
“One intriguing way to enter into the battle between good and evil, life and death, sanity and madness, is in the pages… — Robert Poe Copy Share Image
I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
“A writer should be able to open a window or two for others to see the world and themselves in a new… — Barista Uno Copy Share Image
“The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to… — Alexei Maxim Russell Copy Share Image
I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped… — Melody Carlson Copy Share Image
“If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year. To be sure all day… — Mason Currey Copy Share Image
Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The most memorable books from our childhoods are those that make us feel less alone, convince us that our own foibles and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Stephen Schlesinger’s Act of Creation tells a dazzling story of the dramatic events that have shaped the world in which we live.… — James Chace Copy Share Image
How you solve your problems are quite different. In non-fiction, you can always go back to the research, whereas in fiction, you… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“I should not like my writing to spare other people the trouble of thinking. But, if possible, to stimulate someone to thoughts… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Tony and I are in our own world and we have a really solid foundation so there is not a lot that… — Eva Longoria Copy Share Image
'Off With Their Heads' by Frances Marion. I love a showbusiness autobiography - and this one resonates because it's written by one… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I want to believe that while we may sometimes read in the misguided pursuit of preserving our separation, there is a greater… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
What I'm interested in doing in a story is bringing certain different languages, people, events together and then letting the reader make… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
