“In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The number of diet books available to the public correlates to obesity rates.” — Clay A. Johnson Copy Share Image
No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out. — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
In my experience, every book you write changes the conditions in which you write the next. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect. — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.” — Tom Wiseman Copy Share Image
Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
“There is also a context constituted by the formation of the literature into a larger whole, a context that is literary and/or… — R.W.L. Moberly Copy Share Image
Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
“Days in the past cover up little by little those that preceded them and are themselves buried beneath those that follow them.… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father… — Dick Bruna Copy Share Image
I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what you can do, in… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I can understand pulling a book whose contents have been questioned - after all, false information has a way of sticking in… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
