I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“I read everyday, because reading takes me away, away to a place where nothing is impossible.” — Manoj Arora Copy Share Image
My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader. — Nuruddin Farah Copy Share Image
“Writing - the act of one person giving a piece of their soul to another.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“What could be more important than inspiring a child to read her first book and giving her the gift of confidence?” — Kathy L. Patrick Copy Share Image
Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Dee Dee was very childlike. He had a vivid imagination, and the two books he wrote were 75 per cent fact, 25… — Marky Ramone Copy Share Image
I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
Make a habit of reading what is being written today and what has been written before. Writing is learned by imitation. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
I have been writing since I was a kid. I also traveled a good deal for my work and did extended stays… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our… — Val Edward Simone Copy Share Image
I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced.… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“was this one time I looked out the window and saw that John McClaren was up in the tree house alone. He… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
“Literature had torn Tessa and me apart, or prevented us from merging in the first place. That was its role in the… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Saul Bellow once said, 'A writer is a reader who has moved to emulation' — which I think is true. I just… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key -- and we will survive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I put Chap Stick on before I read, because my lips move along with my eyes. Maybe when I’m a stronger reader,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren't about escaping… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Living life distracts from writing. Writing distracts from living life. Therein lies the conundrum.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
“I never really chose to be a writer. It's just always been what I do. Writing chose me...” — Té Russ Copy Share Image
“My tbr list is an erection all on its own...it just keeps getting bigger.” — K.M. Golland Copy Share Image
I recommend free writing in the morning and the evening as a type of mental shower. — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life. — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking. — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
When you are writing; do it a right thing, because world begins with writing — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being. — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
My own accumulation of influences is actually what made me a writer in the first place. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
