“A good book will keep you fascinated for days. A good bookshop for your whole life.” — Waterstones Copy Share Image
I used to think a good book was the best company, but now Ive thought better. — DH Lawrence Copy Share Image
Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
“Suddenly I remembered that laugh, it told a different story, our story.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to. — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place. — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do your best… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am a writer!! — Anamika Mishra Copy Share Image
“A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book… — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
Ideologically, I have a lot of problems with that, especially when people toss around that form of story as realism. What's called… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens is an enthralling concoction of history and magic, an absorbing, richly detailed, and heart-wrenching reimagining of a timeless… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to fail. I fail every day. I failed thousands of times writing The Book Thief, and that book now… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I think any start has to be a false start because really there’s no way to start. You just have to force… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Nicholson Baker talks about the way in which the most successful nonfiction books are those that can be boiled down into an… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for every teacher or librarian who reads a book and says, "This is exactly the book that so-and-so needs to… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“At their core, Tiger Eyes, Forever..., and Sally J. Freeman are all books about teenage issues, but to an adult reader, the… — Jennifer O'Connell Copy Share Image
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
