It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I like stories, and I really like words. So I like stories that rely on dialogue. — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if I always wanted to be a writer, but I was always writing. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart. — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
When I read, I want to be fully transported to another place. I want to feel things, smell things. — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Books seem the most potent source: each one is the sum total of a life that can be inhaled in a single… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
We should not see print and electronic literature as in competition, but rather in conversation. The more voices that join in, the… — N. Katherine Hayles Copy Share Image
The reason I'm a writer is to understand other people and myself more. The reason I'm a writer is to dramatize stories… — Mike O'Malley Copy Share Image
He didn't just occupy space; he saturated it. The room had been full of books before, now it was full of him. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Oh yeah; I love when I'm writing something that makes me cry - that's so cool. If it got me to do… — Diane Warren Copy Share Image
I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“The library—the place in my life that was full of books—beagan to teach me that books weren't everything.” — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
That's one of the reasons I take a lot of consolation in fiction. You have years to work on it. I think… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Indeed I do belong to that dreadful class of persons known as the reclusive writer – the existential writer. For the existential… — Rotimi Ogunjobi Copy Share Image
“YOU ARE JUST You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The first thing I would say to young writers is, "Don't do it, unless you can't stand not to do it." And… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
“Nora, I believe life’s like a good book. Time makes up the pages that will be your story. Every time your life… — Elizabeth Isaacs Copy Share Image
“I worked transferring books to computer discs, to cut down on storage space and replacement costs, they said. Discers, we called ourselves.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand… — John Green Copy Share Image
