I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“The ordinary writer has an unmistakable preference for this style, because it causes the reader to spend time and trouble in understanding… — Arthur Schopenhaur Copy Share Image
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The private and serious drama of guilt is not often a useful one for fiction today and its disappearance, following perhaps the… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I really want to satisfy myself. I've got a story that I am working on and struggling with, and… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
One of the most important things in my childhood were the new books that came in. I feel sorry for kids today… — Jean Fritz Copy Share Image
A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“Authors, such as William Zinsser, Steven Pinker, Natalie Goldberg, and Stephen King, who have all written exquisite books on the art and… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Here's the thing: the act of reading changes your life, sometimes in large ways, sometimes in small ways, but every book you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Boston had the first public library, Liverpool had the first lending library. Both cities have pioneered medical advancements during the decades and… — John W. Henry Copy Share Image
It was a strange man, a kind of black humorist, a true philosopher. One day he said: "If my books could ensure… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
“I’ve seen middle grade books criticized by adult readers for leaving things for the reader to figure out, for not having perfect… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing,… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If you read one hour per day in your field, that will translate into about one book per week. One book per… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
I never really thought I'd be successful. I never though I'd get books published, but this was something completely beyond me. The… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I guess of all those novels, Don DeLillo's Falling Man is the one I like the best. I thought there were some… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The great thing about fiction is that I don't have to settle on an answer to any troubling question, or even a… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
When Paul Beatty's 'The Sellout' was first published in America in 2015, it was a small release. It got a rave review… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
“A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not an article for mere consumption, but… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Fictions are useful so long as they are taken as fictions. They are then simply ways of "figuring" the world which we… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
I read a lot when I was young. All the obvious, all the greats, from 'Le Grand Meaulnes,' 'To Kill a Mockingbird,'… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
“As writers we intend to make a difference, to alter people's lives for the greater good. . .this is why we write,… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
“Someday when we get around to writing a genealogy of our failures, inadequacies, and disappointments, an important place in such a study… — Boris Gunjević Copy Share Image
Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Yes, I know what you mean about writing and writers. We seem to have lost the target. Writers seem to write to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“To write books is easy, it requires only pen and ink and the ever-patient paper. To print books is a little more… — Stanley Unwin Copy Share Image
