“We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.” — Richard Marius Copy Share Image
We need to read good books, and for that to happen, we need to share good books. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of those few great voices of Time.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“Then again, I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“In its published form, this book is being read, I assume, in the first years of 2000 A.D. (1935 plus eighty or… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
A good novelist pays attention to his characters. A good biographer pays attention to the documents before her. A good critic pays… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I established my first writing routine when I was 13. The school year had just ended, and I'd won a stack of… — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
“I was arguing not that everyone should read books by ladies—though shifting the balance matters—but that maybe the whole point of reading… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
There was a time when only wise books were read helping us to bear our pain and misery. This, after all, is… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“Time of course has showed the question up in all its young illogic. We can justify any apologia simply by calling life… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“There is something unique about the size, and shape, and feel of a real physical book, and there is a real discovery… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
I don't have many hours in a day, as I'm essentially a single parent. But fortunately, I'm a really fast writer. My… — Michelle Gagnon Copy Share Image
And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
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