I love to be read to, I love to read aloud and I love to read to children. — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
“See my blog at crossedeyesanddottedtees.wordpress.com for more of my writing.” — Ellie Presner Copy Share Image
No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it. — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance. — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“The great thing about book burnings is, they still have to buy the books.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the… — Mary Lee Settle Copy Share Image
The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer. — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
“In literature there is no such thing as a pure thought; in literature, thought is always the handmaid of emotion.” — John Middleton Murry Copy Share Image
I write at home. I like to be able to take a nap, watch TV, make a sandwich, and if I wake… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
“So I write thoughts and emotions Taking birth in words And dying unsung in words! Words stitched together To give meaning to… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I guess I think I'm writing for people who are smarter than I am, because then I'll be doing something that's worth… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a… — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
Pleasure reading has long been an American ideal - generations of schoolchildren have headed home for the summer toting recreational reading lists.… — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“As the reputation of books is raised not by their freedom from defect, but the greatness of their beauties, so should that… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
An astonishing debut. Brilliantly conceived, masterfully written, Stuart Neville’s THE TWELVE is both a heart-pounding thriller and a stunning examination of responsibility… — Jeff Abbott Copy Share Image
