“Literature starts by being personal, but the deeper we go inside the more we become everybody.” — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
“There never was a man who could sit down and say: 'Now I am going to be the first man to write.” — David Diringer Copy Share Image
“Hello, my name is Jaako and I am an addict. I am addicted to reading.” — Jaako J. Wallenius Copy Share Image
Doing readings is so gratifying that it makes any physical intensity worth it for me. — Tyler Henry Copy Share Image
I've experienced being properly lost in my desires, and it's really influenced my writing. — Christine and the Queens Copy Share Image
Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The fulfillment I get from a good day of writing is addictive and will always bring me back the next day. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“In general…there’s no point in writing hopeless novels. We all know we’re going to die; what’s important is the kind of men… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
What interests me about fiction is, in part, its flickering edge between realism and where a tear in the fabric of a… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“You could say my book is the best book ever (or worst book ever), and it wouldn’t make it any better (or… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Inexperienced fiction and creative nonfiction writers are often told to show, not tell - to write scenes, dramatize, cut exposition, cut summary… — Laurie Alberts Copy Share Image
“So the beloved children's book author took a deep breath, opened his own book to the very first page, and began reading,… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
There is a great quote from a female writer. She said, 'If you don't break out in a sweat of fear when… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
You say fate is almost indispensable to literature - I think it's completely indispensable, at least in a novel, because a novel… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
“I have never written a novel yet...without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“In my head, owning a bookstore meant I could hide in the back reading all day, while other bookworms came and went… — Kristi Hayes Copy Share Image
The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I read the novel 'Miracle at St. Anna' when it was first released, and I loved it. — Omar Benson Miller Copy Share Image
“I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.” — Shay Youngblood Copy Share Image
“Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.” — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“A writer's life is never boring when you have imaginary friends to play with!” — Christie Silvers Copy Share Image
A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“I wish that death had spared me until your library had been complete.” — Lorenzo de' Medici Copy Share Image
I was deeply infected with storytelling from the get go, and I truly love it. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection. — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Don't read a book to let the time pass...let the time pass to read a book.” — Nicholaa Spencer Copy Share Image
