Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life. — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words. — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later -… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I wrote Report from the Interior was that after I finished Winter Journal, I took a pause, and I realized there was… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically,… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
“I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“There is much you can learn from books and scrolls. These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
I often lament that new picture books don't get read because the classics hold up so well. It's a ridiculous complaint because,… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned… — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
I don't think people need to know much about me to understand the book, or to enjoy it. The book stands by… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you can pay enough people to buy your .99 ebook and review it positively, and crack one of Amazon's bestseller lists,… — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
“It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little - or not at all in some cases - should… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Writers, by their very nature, live a thousand lives and die a thousand times. They experience loss each time a character dies. … — Larry Ray Palmer Copy Share Image
“I learned that there are books and there are readers; given even the worst of circumstances, they get together. In the privacy… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
