The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-traveling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
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“Reading wasn't an attempt to educate myself. It was my chief escape from a world that, although gorgeous in landscape and rich… — Chris Offutt Copy Share Image
All the books on my shelves, when I would go to them to look for help with my anguish, they all just… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
“Ann Patchett about the lack of a fiction Pulitzer winner this year. "Let me underscore the obvious here: Reading fiction is important.… — Lynne Marshall Copy Share Image
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Sin in the Second City is a masterful history lesson, a harrowing biography, and - best of all - a superfun read.… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I really liked the idea of creating a journal myself. It's like the way I clear my throat. I write a page… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
“Plenty of times I've seen writers, famous novelists and essayists, even poets, with names you'd recognize and whose work I admire, drift… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
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On the whole, books are indeed less finite than ourselves. Even the worst among them outlast their authors - mainly because they… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
For me, writing for kids is harder because they're a more discriminating audience. While adults might stay with you, if you lose… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
How it's Done is a richly woven tale of a young woman who discovers what it really means to be an adult.… — Han Nolan Copy Share Image
“The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Books; I repeat, for they've not only been a solace during the long years but also provided the keys to understanding other… — Eliza Granville Copy Share Image
Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul’s research is extraordinary;… — Debby Applegate Copy Share Image
I am at the point of my life where I am realizing that I cannot write about the same shit forever. I… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
I write to tell stories. I believe that there a some professions in the world that will last forever: doctor or a… — Eppu Nuotio Copy Share Image
When really writing I'm not a good friend. Because writing disorganizes the social self, you become atomized. It scrambles you, sometimes to… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
A novel is like a long relationship and a short story is a brief one that lingers - it lingers powerfully and… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
That went on for a long time: telling various tales from my experience being anorexic and bulimic, and having people say, 'You've… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
“Keep a list in your journal of all the ways you have responded productively in difficult situations, as well as the impact… — Kathy Obear Copy Share Image
If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I have accepted the fact that I don't work very quickly, that I have been rejected a lot as a writer, and… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
Do be kind to yourself. Fill pages as quickly as possible; double space, or write on every second line. Regard every new… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“...for some of us, books are as important as anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these… — Anne Lamont Copy Share Image
There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the… — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved,… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
“Austin cleared his throat. Given the choice between being with books or people, he'd always choose books. You could always tell what… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
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