“The writer's characters must stand before us with a wonderful clarity, such continuous clarity that nothing they do strikes us as improbable… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Research shows us that children who are read to from a very early age are more likely to begin reading themselves at… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
The young adult literature is relatively new - it just kind of exploded in the 2000s. When I grew up, there weren't… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“Which is why books are such a lifeline. Stepping into the pages of someone else’s story means joining them in their normal… — Joanna Davidson Politano Copy Share Image
Being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody. Whereas, as an actor, you have to audition or… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Writing is incredibly hard. But I want to do it. That said, I make it the top priority in every day, which… — Lucy Jane Bledsoe Copy Share Image
Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
When people say "How do you write a book, how does it all happen?" I say, you line things up, and you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Maugham described the novel as “the story of a nine days wonder in a Lambeth slum” and confessed to being influenced by… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Writing practice brings us back to the uniqueness of our own minds and an acceptance of it. We all have wild dreams,… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
I love thinking about things subtextually and I actually - like for instance when I write, I actually, I'm not very analytical… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“The reading quieted his brain a little. Without Katherine and without the Theorem and without his hopes of mattering, he had very… — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't think my book is any more shocking than if I went out right now and brought back your local newspaper… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
By college, I had a really grand, preposterous vision of myself as becoming a writer, but I don't think I had the… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“Daemon snatched the yellow packages from my hands. “Oh! Books! You have books!” I laughed as several people waiting in line looked… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
The success of 'The Widow' meant there were expectations for the second book from the first word, and it has created a… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
“Literature was not born the day when a boy crying “wolf, wolf” came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come to that… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that… — John Irving Copy Share Image
To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
Lots of shows are written completely in the writer's room. And I wouldn't say 'The Walking Dead' is that way. There are… — Scott M. Gimple Copy Share Image
I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story.… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
“So the point of my keeping a notebook has never been, nor is it now, to have an accurate factual record of… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing,… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
Writing for adults and writing for young people is really not that different. As a reporter, I have always tried to write… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
“Christie loved books; and the attic next her own was full of them. To this store she found her way by a… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Writing in Library Journal, Ben Vershbow of the Institute for the Future of Book envisioned a digital ecology in which "parts of… — Jeff Jarvis Copy Share Image
If you can instill a love of reading in your children, they will be ahead of the curve at school and in… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
'Top Of The Lake' is a great story with a beginning, and a middle and an end, about darkness - it's like… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
“In my twenties if even a tenth reading of Mallarmé failed to yield up its treasures, the fault was mine, not his.… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Words of wisdom, the meaning of life, p e r h a p s even the answer sought by Borges's librarians—all of… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“While writing the first draft is an exercise in shutting down all of the things we think we know so that the… — Patricia Hickman Copy Share Image
Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Support your public library! It is a treasure and a legacy that will provide entertainment, information, a sense of community, and real… — John Lescroart Copy Share Image
“If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Write naked. That means to write what you would never say. Write in blood. As if ink is so precious you can’t… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
