All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage. — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
I don't really plan too much ahead when I write, because otherwise, I get kind of bored. — Sam Levinson Copy Share Image
No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working. — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammer. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
I tend to overuse the word "project" only because "book" is terrifying while I'm still in the middle of something. A project… — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
As a writer, you look for someplace to start. Once you have a beginning and you've written the first two sentences, nothing… — Ronee Blakley Copy Share Image
“You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one feeling threatened by the truth to the writer.” — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“Somewhere there must be women reading books, and talking of chicken rissoles to their cooks … (from,‘Somewhere in England’)” — Virginia Graham Copy Share Image
“I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art,… — K Lee Lerner Copy Share Image
I've hung around in absolute exhaustion and starvation waiting for an idea to hit, which might have been months. I've talked things… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“I love reading. It gives me somewhere to be, somewhere to be accepted and somewhere to be found. But most of all,… — Katy Feng Copy Share Image
As authors, most - most authors , our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Reading might not be the way that the child engages with the world, but it should be something that they all learn… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Books can be passed around. They can be shared. A lot of people like seeing them in their houses. They are memories.… — Daniel Goldin Copy Share Image
How do you make your kids read more? It needs to be presented as a joy and a privilege to get to… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
