Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens. — Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon Copy Share Image
My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.” — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Writers who take on polarising issues are apt to step on a few toes. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record. — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
First hand on 'Go Goa Gone' I learnt how to write on final drafts, how the process works. — Kunal Khemu Copy Share Image
“Goodreads sports some of the social awkwardness of middle school. If you are looking for a friend, I promise no matter your… — Red Phoenix Copy Share Image
“A book is read one page at a time. A shelf is read one book at a time. A library is read… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Though I've spent years working with and creating images, I feel most comfortable expressing myself through writing. — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
Who has not stared at the blank page and not been able to think of anything to write for what at least… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that.… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I have a great editor and I enjoy, in a masochistic way, being ruthless about my own performance. How do I know,… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“Realism is for lazy-minded, semi-educated people whose atrophied imagination allows them to appreciate only the most limited and convention subject matter. Re-Fi… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“With its weight and solidity, a book signals to the world that there are ideas worth preserving in a form that carries… — Steven L. Carter Copy Share Image
“Hemingway studied, as models, the novels of Knut Hamsun and Ivan Turgenev. Isaac Bashevis Singer, as it happened, also chose Hamsun and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Every broken piece of me fell on every broken piece of you and when I took the missing parts, like the emptiness… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
“Beach reading: Planning on reading, but failing relentlessly due to the heart-stirring view.” — Malak El Halabi Copy Share Image
I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
gold is power-artemis fowl I liked the artemis fowl series because its about a boy genius — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do. — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Hemingway’s quote about how a man goes broke: “Gradually and then suddenly.”5” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I score everything by hand on manuscript paper and then make copies. — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books. — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
