“ There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Literature plays a huge role in examining difficult real-life issues. — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
“Nothing that happens to a writer--however happy, however tragic--is ever wasted.” — P.D. James Copy Share Image
[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs. — Yannis Philippakis Copy Share Image
Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“Your mail could've waited." Daemon followed me into the kitchen. "What is it? Just books?" Grabbing the OJ from the fridge, I… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“I do hope you'll forgive me if I overwhelm you with talk. When I meet somebody who's heard that books exist, I'm… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I have, my whole life, been healing the girl inside, the part of me that struggles about being a female in the… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“If I don't write it, who will? No one; at least not the way I would because the idea is uniquely mine.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing therapy is my form of healing. Try and detach yourself from painful memories by infusing characters and then stepping back.” — Phil Wohl Copy Share Image
“A novel is in its broadest definition a personal, a direct impression of life: that, to begin with, constitutes its value, which… — Henry James Copy Share Image
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
When I was little, my ambition was to grow up to be a book. Not a writer. People can be killed like… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“There, stacked high on his desk, was a tower of paper. Thick slabs of manuscript. Slush. Unsolicited, unagented, unloved. This was where… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were.… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the tale that's… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Books has its own world and I am one of those people captivated to enter its magical door — Jermilyn Inot Copy Share Image
I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book. — Linda Lael Miller Copy Share Image
“Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list.” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
You can't write about things without doing them. You just have to live that same way. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Mornings belong to whatever is new; the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If You don't read good books, then you are no better than an unlettered Man” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just feel that 'The Color Purple,' which was my 10th book, was a true gift from my ancestors. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Writing unlocks the heart, mind and soul that we may be receptive to God's blessings.” — Peggy Toney Horton Copy Share Image
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