War and Peace maddens me because I didn't write it myself, and worse, I couldn't. — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
“It was a tricky quality that suggested, well, magic and things read in books,” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“My life as well as my writing are guided by creed in lieu of clichés Carl Henegan” — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
It's more fun to write stuff when you know someone's going to nail it. — Riki Lindhome Copy Share Image
Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I think 'Beasts of No Nation' is a novel that hopefully will affect each person who reads it in a different way. — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime. — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
“Your case gives me new hope," I said to him. "With me, more and more often I happen to pick up a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Reading is accumulating knowledge. But not only that. Reading offers us every day what religion promises us for a posthumous and improbable… — Camilo Gomes Jr Copy Share Image
By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Maybe the world isn't enough, or maybe the distinction between the world and fiction is not so clear. Fiction is made from… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
But reading is not idleness?it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless.… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I have spent so long erecting partitions around the part of me that writes - learning how to close the door on… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“The people who read pirated books are never going to buy your work anyway; it’s a totally different audience than purchasing readers.… — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
