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Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.
— John F. Kennedy
I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read.
— Kerry Greenwood
My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them.
— Sylvia Plath
I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.
— Carol Ann Duffy
Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.
— Francine Prose
I write because in my books, I can experience those (mad and crazy) things that I won't be able to do in my real life
— Anamika Mishra
Write it down and it will come alive.
— Efrat Israeli
Reading literature and engaging in writing breaks through the mental rigidity that experience and repetition breeds.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real life.
— Claire Tomalin
Ursula K. Le Guin urges authors to remember why they do what they do. Her argument is that writing is an form of art rather than a commodity.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.
— Lisa Scottoline
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
— Toni Morrison
A book lives a new life every time it is read.
— Brandon Sanderson
Before there were books, we read each other.
— Lisa Cron
My philosophy has always been if I can learn just one thing from an article or book on writing, it's worth it.
— Writer's Digest Books
How do you paint a writer's block?Just fill it with fifty shades of black. — Ana Claudia Antunes
I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.
— Paul Auster
Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?
— Julian Barnes
I think you have to read a lot. I think if you're going to write about something you better have read at least 100 books on that topic.
— Larry Winget
Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of.
— Christina Westover
Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.
— Jamie L. Harding
The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read.
— Shannon L. Alder
Great books make a great life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Wisdom is in books, ... quote by me Halina Lagarde . Dan Brown is an inspiration to a book I am writing.
— Dan Brown
The best of fiction, as we know, of course, doesn't tell the truth; it tales the truth.
— Criss Jami
I would rather spend money on something, that fulfills me for eternity. Rather, than something that fulfills me for only an hour or two.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
— Edward Abbey
I think when you first start out, you're writing books that are about your immediate place.
— Jami Attenberg
My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
— Tony Judt
An Authorpreneur focuses on establishing one's brand to the consumer using different avenues to promote their work.
— Geraldine Solon
BIG books are better. There, I said it and it's true.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
But books don't happen by accident.
— Scott Westerfeld
The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world.
— Anthony Liccione
But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
— Patricia Cornwell
I am an author of Christian Fantasy. My first 7 books were Christian Romance, but I came over to the Dark Side when I heard there were cookies.
— Donita K. Paul
I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.
— Mohsin Hamid
I only write books about dead people. They can't sue.
— Pierre Berton
As a writer, the main skill you need is curiosity. As a reader, the main tool you need is open-mindedness.
— Gloria D. Gonsalves
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
— Madeleine L'Engle
If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.
— Brett Armstrong
Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity.
— Donald J. Bingle
I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.
— George Pelecanos
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
— Salman Rushdie
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
— G.K. Chesterton
No matter how good it is, your book will not sell itself.
— Elinor Florence
If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.
— William H Gass
More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
These people that write books on how to succeed and how to think positively make millions because it's something that doesn't occur naturally.
— Rush Limbaugh
Digital distribution has widened the reading world.
— Sara Sheridan
Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.
— Robert Adamson
A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.
— Nicholaa Spencer
Working 9 to 5 is structure. But tying lines together all hours of day is structure at its best performing magic.
— C.C. Wyatt
Writing is a solitary endeavor, being an author is not.
— Karen A. Chase
You should always have 2 books ... the one you're reading and the one you're writing.
— Sterling W. Sill
Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out!
— Carmen DeSousa
Writing a book isn't an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life's most satisfying achievements.
— Guy Kawasaki
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
— Carlos Fuentes
I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a collection.
— Deborah Eisenberg
We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When I die I hope it may be said:'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'. — Shannon L. Alder
When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters.
— Kerry Greenwood
If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!
— Charles M. Schulz
Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
— Oscar Wilde
A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape.Even when you're the one writing it. — Julie Wright
It's not easy to write a poem about a poem.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Write It, Work It, Publish
— Cherry-Ann Carew
There are a lot of writers, but only one YOU.
— Pandora Gray
I am grateful to all my readers; you inspired me to keep writing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There are more writers who read than readers who write.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.
— Charles Stross
I could spend the rest of my life writing and drawing books for kids and be a very happy man.
— Daniel Sean Kaye
Don't ever trust anyone who's writing a book. They make up lies for a living.
— Rosemary Clement-Moore
I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
— Samantha Shannon
A good book is not the same as a successful one.
— Johnny Rich
Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.
— Ferran Adria
