I try to approach reading in front of millions of people as I would reading in somebody's living room. — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
It's a slow process rewriting your own life in your head. I think that's a writerly thing. — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
I report as a machine; I write as a person. That clear dichotomy softens the transition. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Get your deprived, samall-town, romance-novel reading mind out of of the gutter, Becky.” — Maureen A. Miller Copy Share Image
The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte has been my all-time favorite book since I was in middle school. — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
“Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Apart from having ‘National Poet’, ‘National Anthem’ etc., I hope it will not be irrelevant if there is ‘National Writer’ in every… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
“People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.” — Dermot Davis Copy Share Image
A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
The construct of William Gibson the Writer is coming down, and become more open. It's more of a Glasnost - Transparency! Transparency… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“She thinks it was Margaret Atwood who said that wanting to meet a writer because you like their work was like wanting… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“You can't murder a book. Even I know that. But you know what you can do with a book, what you can… — Lady Jaida Copy Share Image
The Library of Relationships: Finding someone is like finding a book. You shouldn't walk in the Library and pick up the first… — TroyCj Copy Share Image
As a story writer, you have work with sharp but relatively small tools, the picks of metaphor, the shovel blade of images,… — David Means Copy Share Image
A lot of times, writers are told write as big as you can, and that's not untrue. But at times I think… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I'm a different writer now. You don't sit in a room with Sopranos creator David Chase and writer Terence Winter for four… — Matthew Weiner Copy Share Image
