“In 1994, the average person spent $79 on books as compared to $56 on recorded music.” — Richard L. Brandt Copy Share Image
I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When someone asks me now, "What do you do?" I will be able to say, "I am a writer." — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as… — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
“Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“But my writing won’t ever reflect the diversity that literature in general should be capable of. You need writers whose lives are… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“It is characteristic of Dickens who, when he grasps the wrong end of the stick, never fails to belabour everyone in sight… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I first read 'Lord of the Flies' as a teenager. I remember feeling disillusioned afterwards, but not for a second did I… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm never more miserable than when I write, and never more happy than having finished and having it sitting in front of… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I established my first writing routine when I was 13. The school year had just ended, and I'd won a stack of… — Ayobami Adebayo Copy Share Image
“I was arguing not that everyone should read books by ladies—though shifting the balance matters—but that maybe the whole point of reading… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“PUBLISH YOUR BOOK TODAY The following is a direct quote from Amazon, and, if you are a real writer, it is one… — Terry Kennedy Copy Share Image
“And I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books. I think the ideal… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
All novels must be autobiographical because I am the only material that I know. All of the characters are me. But at… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea… — Edward P. Morgan Copy Share Image
And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international. — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have a book in me, but I'm sure I have more essays. — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper. — Julien Green Copy Share Image
I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen. — Jack London Copy Share Image
As a little girl, I used to write stories, but by my teenage years, I got out of the habit. — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons. — Henry Channon Copy Share Image
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure. — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
It's not how many books you get through, it's how many books get through you. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books. — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
