I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
If one believes that words are acts, as I do, then one must hold writers responsible for what their words do. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A recommendation to scholars: Write only one book about Lincoln; give it your best shot, and then move on. — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Glancing round to see that no one was watching, I sniffed at it. The leather binding, soft and supple, was pungent, but… — Linda Proud Copy Share Image
If I were to give myself a pat on the back, it would be for sticking with bookmaking as my primary way… — Jerry Pinkney Copy Share Image
I don't think I'll write a large novel again because it was like being in jail for me. Even though that's the… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's… — David Ortiz Copy Share Image
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Other people’s words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“I have to admit that most of the time I read in the same way that I smoke and chew gum and… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“Lived in Chicago, survived in New York, brooded in Detroit, floundered in lots of places, arrived here late, after living in libraries… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual controls)… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Now, as a writer, the whole world is your nail polish display, and what's more, you can help yourself. A thrilling, colourful… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Some professional writers write everyday no matter what and perhaps that's the way it should be done, but it's not the way… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Reading the book now means that one can, if one wants, play Fantasy Literature--match writers off against each other and see who… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I am to cover the philosophical side of the debate and so far my only thought is that reading keeps you from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For the writer under Actually Existing Socialism describing sex is a simple matter: he simply does not do it (the describing, I… — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
“Reading, as it turned out, is the easy part. Finding a good book is the real challenge. It's a crapshoot. It's like… — Doug Robinson Copy Share Image
“When I’d gotten older, she’d taught me to read on my own, telling me, “If you ever doan like where you are,… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Books are like the last parachute in the dying situation in the plane of life, helpful to soothe the sorrows and get… — Farid Copy Share Image
If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Reading Bukowski and Burroughs and Henry Miller doesn't necessarily mean that a kid is going to try to emulate their debauchery to… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
“A writer who can't follow submission guidelines is like a pilot without a plane... ain't gonna get very far!” — Jo Linsdell Copy Share Image
Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I always thought 'Of Mice and Men' was such a perfect book because there's nothing not to understand, but it's still really… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
My gift, if that's not too grandiose a term, is one for describing novels, biographies, and works of history in such a… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
'Colonel Roosevelt' is compelling reading, and Morris a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level. — Fred Kaplan Copy Share Image
“let the story go, and still clutched F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise in my arms as if to let it… — Karen White Copy Share Image
It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Only one hour in a day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep,… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more… — Ellen Hunnicutt Copy Share Image
