“A true friend is like a good book, the inside is better than the cover.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“These books were a way of escaping from the unhappiness of my life.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
Always I try to write about people. People are interested in other people always. — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads. — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing. — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them. — Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Copy Share Image
It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
“Writing a long sentence is like watching a soccer player in slow motion as he kicks the ball across the field, as… — James Rumford Copy Share Image
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I think that his [Kurt Vonnegut's] appeal, though, will always be chiefly to adolescents. His sense of the world matches that of… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“My object is merely to give the reader a general introduction into an abode where, if so disposed, he may linger and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I use a library the same way I’ve been describing the creative process as a writer — I don’t go in with… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two… — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
“Wouldn't it be good if we could let teachers do what they do best - teach. Not judge each child on a… — Sally Gardner Copy Share Image
I'm pretty lenient with myself about time - if I feel like taking photographs of small things inside ice cubes or making… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Ralph Ellison is a classic work of erudition, grace, and elegance. Rampersad offers us an Ellison whose gifts and warts orbit the… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination:… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and… — Edith Hall Copy Share Image
“Writing is good, thinking is better. Being smart is good, being patient is better.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“I held a beautiful leather-bound copy of Moby Dick in one hand and my Moby dick in the other.” — Nick Pageant Copy Share Image
After 'Where the Wild Things Are,' I guess I felt more confident as a writer. — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
“I tried to write a coming of age novel, but I wasn't deep enough to get past the third chapter.” — Rick Robinson Copy Share Image
You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery. — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life. — Stephan Jenkins Copy Share Image
“You know you're a writer when you wish you could meet your characters and hang out with them.” — Kerry Frith Copy Share Image
One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
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