Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
I've loved reading since I was a kid. Sometimes I have two or three books going at the same time. — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
“If you have a book, and an imagination, you can never find yourself alone. Ever.” — William Fritz Copy Share Image
“I am more of a doer than a writer. I do not live to write. I write because I have lived.” — Thurman P. Banks Jr Copy Share Image
The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I don't have anything to prove as a writer anymore. I write about Panera Bread or Red Lobster or Satan or Richard… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
“Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose identity the public will never know.” — Richard Castle Copy Share Image
Every library answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and that of… — Georges Perec Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated,… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
“The love of books was an instant connection, and a true boon for a girl who tended toward shyness, because it was… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“I always get muscle aches in my eyes after a few hours of reading," she said. "Doesn't matter what. The closeness does… — Ryan Knighton Copy Share Image
“Somxtimxs I gxt to thinking that what I do doxsn't mattxr. But whxn I start thinking that way, I rxmxmbxr my old… — Tom Connellan Copy Share Image
A memoir is not an autobiography. It's a true story told as a novel, using techniques of novelization. The author is allowed… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
Writing about someone well known removes that obligation of defending it as a subject, but it also means that some of the… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I am not a performing seal. In your writing, you are tapping into the part that is 'the best' in you. But… — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
Certainly, I had a wonderful push from my publisher and got very lucky. I'm very aware of what it means to have… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
You can always be writer. It's not so much a metamorphosis as it is finding what you want. — Jason Diamond Copy Share Image
I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know. — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories. — John Green Copy Share Image
“It was always the bookish ones you had to be worried about. They knew shit.” — Linsey Hall Copy Share Image
When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I just want to shout, "READ ALL MY FAVORITE BOOKS!” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I loved making stories, so I thought maybe I would be a novelist. — Hirokazu Kore-eda Copy Share Image
