“And everywhere, everywhere, there were books. Not the tidy stacks of an intellectual attempting to impress, but the slumping piles of a… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I would be writing and trying to write like Joan Didion. Or if I was reading Raymond Carver. You know, strong stylists.… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of books in this world. One improves the mind, the other the bank balance. Sometimes they're the same… — Paula Gosling Copy Share Image
My hand is very tired but I want to go on writing. I keep resting and thinking. All day I have been… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
This was an age before e-books. We all knew that the only way you can allow a book to survive in print… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Any time someone doesn't like one on the first run, I hope they will give it another shot. At least we'll get… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
If you have some other profession that allows you your evenings or weekends, terrific, stick with that. Having a profession other than… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
“Writing is more fun when you have a partner, so find friends who share your research interests. Two authors can write faster,… — Paul J. Silvia Copy Share Image
People say, 'All my son will read is 'Captain Underpants,' or 'My son is crazy about shark books, is that O.K.?' I… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“It might have been brief, but so much of a kiss - a first kiss especially - is the moment before your… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
The Bodleian Library, next to the Sheldonian, is one of the great libraries of the world. As well as holding most of… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
“In Trout's novel, The Pan-Galactic Memory Bank, the hero is on a space ship two hundred miles long and sixty-two miles in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages,… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
“She did not believe Fate as painstaking as her husband; she was more inclined to take matters into her own hands. She… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Writers make everybody nervous but we terrify Silly Service workers. Our apartments always look like a front for something, and no matter… — Florence King Copy Share Image
[Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
“He told me that archivists and librarians were opposite personas. True librarians are unsentimental. They're pragmatic, concerned with the newest, cleanest, most… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night,… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
I more seriously considered publishing it under a pseudonym than I considered publishing it as fiction. I think the decision to write… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
I'm a writer; I've worked as much as a writer as I have as an actor, so I was in a script-note… — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“[But] just as unseen worlds unfold to those who read a book, so worlds hidden to hurried sight unfold to those who… — Priscilla Stuckey Copy Share Image
I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake.… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I don't think she is underappreciated, certainly not among writers, but Alice Munro is the classic underappreciated writer among readers. It is… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
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Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
Glimpses is dead-on about the high and tight nineties even as it reaches out for the sweet hereafter of the sixties. It… — Frederick Barthelme Copy Share Image
Books have always been living things to me. Some of my encounters with new authors have changed my life a little. When… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
Paymasters come in only two sizes: one sort shows you where the book says that you can't have what you've got coming… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“We will speak for the books." ... "Like the Lorax?" "The Lorax speaks for the trees," I remind her. "Books are made… — Paul Acampora Copy Share Image
The basic thing is to be humble, and pretend you're a bartender in the tavern of life. Don't get too comfortable and… — James McBride Copy Share Image
“The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There were others, such as Jack London,who offered their readers such a respite from the miserable horror of existence that their books… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
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