“A truly good book…teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm too impatient to wait for things to happen to me. If I should be out of work for two months I… — Erland Josephson Copy Share Image
Simply put, you can read a story in a single sitting and hold it all in your mind. You can experience all… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
“I lie on the floor with my head on my books and my feet up on more of my books and stare… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
All the old school Young Adult novels inspired me. I grew up reading R.L. Stine, Christopher Pike, Richie Cusick, and so on.… — Jennifer Armentrout Copy Share Image
“I write to express myself, I write to be a voice for those who can not speak I write to inspire change… — Criss Tareyton Copy Share Image
I think we overrate experience and what we've been through in terms of our success at doing the work we do. There… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
“This is not an autobiography. It is, rather, a kind of curriculum vitae — my attempt to show how one writer was… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If a person chooses not to be a writer, or speaker, then (by definition) the person is choosing not to be engaged… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Vonnegut is one of America's basic artists, a true and worthy heir to the grand tradition of Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, Dreiser, Traven,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Most people have a list of 100 books to read before they die, or 100 places to visit. Not me. I have… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
A journal is a very personal thing. As far as possible, to write this sort of book you need to know and… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
Most of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it's possible to say anything about them. And… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
My best times are midnight to six actually. I'll leaf through my notebooks and if something catches my eye and I feel… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
But revision is a creative act, not merely an analytical imposition of rules of style on a more creative first draft. That's… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
There are as many different ways to write a novel as there are varieties of human consciousness, so I am totally delighted… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
I grew up in a place where books were very, very scarce, and I loved to read. I used to read the… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer,… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also,… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental… — Pat Williams Copy Share Image
In writing novels, you have to believe in yourself or there would be no way to sustain it. But you also have… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“It would be rather lovely, [commenting on having an agent] becuase then I would feel better about this whole mess. I think… — Molly Lynn Robinson Copy Share Image
When you're writing you're constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“[...] he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Here is a writer possessing the greatest talent: that of fully inhabiting the lives of others. Spargo conjures up these two as… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I always feel like my book is a success when I see a child reading it, and they have their pointer finger… — Jan Brett Copy Share Image
“The bookshop felt damp and chilly, but it was still and unsupervised bookshop, and Anna felt a frisson of excitement as she… — Lucy Dillon Copy Share Image
Kids are always writing me: 'I had a bad day too.' 'I got gum in my hair.' And the kids also write… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“A writer is anyone who follows only the truth of who they are, without ever relying on anything other than the poverty… — Christian Bobin Copy Share Image
“And to love such a librarian requires a surrendering to her eccentricities, a bowing to her pathological quietness, an obeisance to a… — Jesse Giles Christiansen Copy Share Image
There's this whole post-modern, nuevo beatnik, retro-bohemian thing going on, you know what I mean? You walk into some coffee shops, and… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Voices have been, and always will be, too afraid to speak with as much volume as a book. That’s why writers write—to… — Tarryn Fisher - Mud Vein Copy Share Image
“Who hath a book Hath friends at hand, And gold and gear At his command; And rich estates, If he but look,… — Wilbur D. Nesbit Copy Share Image
![“It would be rather lovely, [commenting on having an agent] becuase then I would feel better about this whole mess. I think I might be less paranoid or something to that effect. And hell, it sure would help. I mean, I've got two more of the 'Nevermore' Triology and then about fifteen other novels…” quote by Molly Lynn Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/4d5/molly-lynn-robinson-84199_agent_it-would-be-rather-lovely-commenting-on_1623320.jpg)
![“[...] he made it a rule never to touch a book by any author who had not been dead at least 30 years. "That's the only kind of book I can trust", he said. "It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had…” quote by Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/02b/haruki-murakami-21_book_he-made-it-a-rule-never-to-touch-a-book_1535746.jpg)
![“The ideas for my books come about in two ways. There can be an intellectual idea that seems to be the reason for writing the book. [...] The other motive is unconscious. There is something deeply psychological and emotional that draws me to the material in the first place.” quote by Jeffrey Eugenides](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/357/jeffrey-eugenides-462_book_the-ideas-for-my-books-come-about-in-two_541787.png)
