“I want the kids to enjoy reading not only today but for the rest of their lives.” — Ron Clark Copy Share Image
When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Becoming a better writer is going to help you become a better reader, and that is the real payoff.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“What makes a writer successful is not money or fame (though both are nice) ... it's that in being true to her… — Miyoko Hikiji Copy Share Image
Is it hot in the rolling mill? Are the hours long? Is $15 a day not enough? Then escape is easy. Simply… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
Brilliant, hard-earned and honest. The erasures and reappearances of figure and ground-that hard drama-have rarely been so movingly undertaken. A heartbreakingly beautiful… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“I suspect that the real attraction was a large library of fine books, which was left to dust and spiders since Uncle… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
At a certain point, I got used to writing on demand. I developed a habit of writing like I hired myself! I… — Jake Holmes Copy Share Image
“The study's small ventilation window bumped open, and Vin squeezed through, pulling in a puff of mist behind her. She closed the… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Literature tried to open the universe, to increase, even if only slightly the sum total of what it was possible for human… — Salmon Rushdie Copy Share Image
There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
You don't write the kitchen scene just because you're eager to do it that day and you're avoiding something else. I think… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Every time you look at a blank piece of paper, you're doing something new. You have to step onto that blank territory… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Books were always my friends Last more than fifty years Books gave me dreams Dreams resulted in missions Books helped me confidently… — A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
“I think a writer should always be surprised; and the more I write, the more it seems that the language itself, when… — Ciaran Carson Copy Share Image
I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library and the… — Michael Sims Copy Share Image
