The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is a direct correlation between the books you read and the success you achieve. — David Cottrell Copy Share Image
When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs. — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
“What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We can live in a society founded on the book and yet not read, or we can live in a society where… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Two things can make life meaningful: books and love. ...I already have books. Now I am setting off in search of love. — Joel Dicker Copy Share Image
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I'm through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me… If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
I have to challenge myself, and I have to challenge the reader. We should be weaving and working on new stories and… — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written… — Andrew Gross Copy Share Image
I really love picking up subjects where people say, 'How is this going to work?' and trying to find a way to… — Shruti Haasan Copy Share Image
You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed.… — Zac Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“I wrote the last sentence of The Patron Saint of Liars in early April and stumbled out of my apartment and into… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“But you love books, then,” Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen. “Oh, yes,” Lestat said. “Sometimes they are the only… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The only writers who have any peace are the ones who don't write. And there are some like that. They wallow in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
“What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all… — John Bright Copy Share Image
