“Hemingway is my favourite writer, I'm just not the hugest fan of his writing.” — Atticus Copy Share Image
“The novel, I submit, is not merely the ultimate goal. It is also the place to start.” — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off. — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
“Books can send you to another dimension, a dimension exclusive only for the readers.” — My Self Copy Share Image
I couldnt be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because Im pretty optimistic. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“If being a writer doesn't make you humble, nothing else will." ~ Verge Le Noir” — Verge LeNoir Copy Share Image
“Alma came to consider her library work as a kind of indoor gardening,” — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Ive always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“She’s been reading too much, he thought -had drifted across that line that separated what you might find in a book from… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work. — Jim Goldberg Copy Share Image
“To write a lot, you should rethink your mental models of rejection and publication. Rejections are like a sales tax on publications:… — Paul J. Silvia Copy Share Image
When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I have not muddled through my… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read… — Mohsen Makhmalbaf Copy Share Image
And then he left, and came back, and our lives fell apart, like a well-loved book that you’d read and read again,… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
“But when you write something down, you have to think it all the way through. Sometimes, I'm not even sure how I… — Pat Murphy Copy Share Image
What wonderful and haunting worlds Krys Lee illuminates-a goose for a goose father, a sympathetic wife made bold by her husband's infidelity-… — Janice Y. K. Lee Copy Share Image
“How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
