If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you. — Alma Alexander Copy Share Image
School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Electronic books live out of sight and out of mind. But printed books have body, presence.” — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“If you're a college student, the equivalent of a weeks reading for classes, can be about the same amount of a book.… — Tiffany Acevedo Copy Share Image
You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Learned to love the fact recognized in the books seems to be only good things, O world, we capture the essence of… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
Remember to write for yourself, not for a market and give yourself time to develop your own style, your own voice. It… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Every author dreams of the kind of attention that 'Beautiful Children' has received in the press. Obviously, it's a shock whenever it… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
“That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though… — Jamie Craig Copy Share Image
“You should read Wodehouse when you're well and when you're poorly;when you're travelling, and when you're not;when you're feeling clever, and when… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“When your story is written on a piece of paper and that paper gets crumpled up and thrown into a shredder, you… — Ker Dukey Copy Share Image
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“She slid a book from the shelf and sat with it on the floor. She tore a page from the book and… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Afterwards, in bed with a book, the spell of television feels remote compared to the journey into the page. To be in… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
In some ways, you can say that at any time in any writer's career: 'He might have run out of ideas.' — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I adore all Agatha Christie's books and turn to them whenever I'm ill or need cheering up. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“We often speak of creating an environment for reading, a reading climate.” — Teri S. Lesesne Copy Share Image
Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world. — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
If you wanna write what is in your heart you'll be the pen and I'll be the paper — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“Books aren't made of pages and words.They are made of hopes,dreams and possibilities.” — Harlequin Copy Share Image
I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life. — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
“When you believe you've become the best writer you can be… you still aren’t.” — Michael J. Kannengieser Copy Share Image
