The theory of isolation of certain tasks in certain hemispheres of the brain suggests I shouldn't even be able to speak, never… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own. — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
“Studied all year and wrote in my journal like a nun works a Rosary, dog with a new bone, bee in his… — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
“Most writers might as well write in invisible ink, because if what they’re writing is forgettable, it might as well be invisible… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I'm stuck, I really do need that cup of tea, or that chocolate, or a break, or a walk, but… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold,… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library.' She pointed to the shelf opposite. 'Over there… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Also by Jimmy Carter Our Endangered Values Sharing Good Times The Hornet’s Nest The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture Christmas in Plains (illustrated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“God, Himself, wrote the 10 into stone with his own finger. He told the epic of mankind, our origins and our future,… — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
I like to write from midnight to dawn with great stores of candy and Red Bull laid in... I'm not sure why… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
“loved coming here. It always felt so…safe. I was allowed to read any book I wanted. No one interrupted me, or if… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
“Never walk over a writer, I said to myself, unless you're positive he can't rise up behind you. If you're going to… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Writing isn't generally a lucrative source of income; only a few, exceptional writers reach the income levels associated with the best-sellers. Rather,… — Melissa Scott Copy Share Image
“Note to aspiring writers: This is actually not that many rejections in the grand scheme of things. I know published writers whose… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
In truth, the cinema as a delivery system obviously has its days numbered. And that's not a bad thing. When you can… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
“The distinguished dead are clay in the hands of writers, and chance determines the shapes that their characters assume in the books… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
Anuj Bahari has always been a really good literary agent for me. What a good agent does is that he manages many… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
I wanted to leave home, and I didn't know where I was going or what I was going to do or what… — James Avery Copy Share Image
Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“I was always able to lose myself in reading. Books were a necessary escape I always gladly jumped into headfirst.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
I like it when I can hear directly from the writer: what they're seeing, what they're envisioning, and what their intention is. — Jennifer Hale Copy Share Image
If you can't figure out how to make the beginning of your book compelling, you're probably not writing a compelling book. — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
My father was very fond of reading. It was something we did at our home. I don't think it fits the way… — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want… — J. A. Jance Copy Share Image
“There is a difference between an author and a writer. The author never gives up when things go wrong, but the writer… — Millicent Ashby Copy Share Image
“I looked up at the shelf that held my books. I had dozens now. Faithful friends who took me on journeys without… — Kaje Harper Copy Share Image
When you live in Brooklyn, if you throw a rock, you'll hit a writer - Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, Paul Auster. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
People say you make your best work when you're in despair and all that, and at your lowest - but for me,… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I think most writers would like a quiet space, complete isolation, in which they control their own time. Spaces of creativity in… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Sometimes Chris wished he could sneak a peek at the back of the book, so to speak, and see how it was… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list.… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you;… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
