Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“as a child there was either books or pain. i chose books. -how i became a writer” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
Science and literature are both ways to ask questions about why we're here. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
When I sit down I write very fast... if I haven't finished a book in two or three months then I think… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
The blonde student went to the library and checked out a book called How to Hump. She got back to her dorm… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
You could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mental health, I need… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
“Reading is how we learn to attach ourselves to ourselves, and to others, and to the world: reading inhabits us with the… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
The way a small child might dream of visiting Disneyland, I dreamed of writing books. Never did I think my poems would… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“We learn writing by doing it. That simple. We don’t learn by going outside ourselves to authorities we think know about it.” — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Stuart Rojstaczer writes with enormous wit, style and empathy, and The Mathematician's Shiva is a big-hearted, rollickingly funny novel that's impossible to… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
“Turning the pages of this encoded codex, I realize that the books I love most are like open cities, with all sorts… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
As a writer, I find it a literal impossibility to disengage from whatever the location might be, given how everything that eventually… — Jack Driscoll Copy Share Image
“And the non-reading of books, you will object, should be characteristic of all collectors? This is news to me, you may say.… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“… if necessary, the books shall be divided as follows: you get the odd, I get the even pages; "the books" are… — Vera Pavlova Copy Share Image
Writing 'Men We Reaped' broke me in different ways at different spots in the drafting process. The first draft was hard because… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
I myself discovered many authors through school reading lists and through school anthologies. The positives are: young readers can find the world… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
