It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Book is a half of a clapping hand and the reader is the other half of it. :)) — Reader's Digest Copy Share Image
“Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made by your own hand.” — Y.K. Raikou Copy Share Image
You know, I have dropped three expensive pens on the nib. And it just makes you cry when it happens. — Jim Watkins Copy Share Image
I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write. — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence. — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
“Once you learn the joy of reading a whole world of discovery opens up and you'll never look back” — Toby Reynolds Copy Share Image
I don't know about transformation. But scientifically you can say: Well, it doesn't seem to hurt anybody. Personally I've been cheered by… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“But the best parts of him were in his books. I suppose I could always read those if I missed him too… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them.… — Carmen Boullosa Copy Share Image
Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Reading yourself as a fiction as well as a fact is the only way to keep the narrative open - the only… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When I started to write, I realised that you need a bit of both: the overall context as well as the individual's… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“Every day, librarians enforce copyright policies that we may disagree with and that, in some ways, run contrary to the values of… — R. David Lankes Copy Share Image
I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively ... For words… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I take some pains to learn the material beforehand. I have a bunch of tricks I use to try and hit the… — Colm Feore Copy Share Image
“To publish in the sense of making a book available to the public is easy – and never easier than it is… — John B. Thompson Copy Share Image
Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Actually I'd always thought he sat in the library with a slim volume of metaphysical poetry until the commissioner called him on… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
“I want to give just a slight indication of the influence the book has had. I knew that George Orwell , in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“If the author shows no tears while writing their tale, neither will the person who reads it.” — P.l.n Copy Share Image
I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them. — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books. — John Hersey Copy Share Image
“A simple look can not and will not uncover even a simple book.” — ferrrer joey palomar fesico Copy Share Image
I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things. — William Stafford Copy Share Image
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
