“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality. --Richard Wright to William Faulkner” — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“I'll never stop writing. It's one occupation in which being crazy, even senile, might help.” — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
For me, the act of telling the story and showing it to somebody is almost gravy. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all. — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
“Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.” — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
“One of the inconveniences of stealing books—especially for a novice like myself—is that sometimes you have to take what you can get.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Writing is one method of dealing with being human or wanting to suicide cause in order to write you kill yourself at… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
An author needs to be in the market. He or she needs to come out with a new book every year. That… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“For a more detailed discussion of the subject, read Neal and Jana Hallford’s Swords and Circuitry (Hallford and Hallford, 2001).” — Ernest Adams Copy Share Image
Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that… — Avi Copy Share Image
Digital doesn't interest me. It's too many steps removed from the actual tactile thing. I still read books. I don't read online. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
“In my first novel the heroine didn't get her man, in my second the heroine was 64 years old, my third was… — Maynah Lewis Copy Share Image
When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Oh, I do a tremendous amount of rewriting. I just obsessively rewrite. Although sometimes there are sections, sometimes you're just lucky and… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we… — William Golding Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I suppose I was interested in checking out as much about writing as I could: bad, weird, irritating,… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is something that's going to pull you up… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I know some writers can write on the road, but I'm not one of them. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass. — John Berger Copy Share Image
I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained. — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
The Thorn Birds' by Colleen McCullough. I took it on a holiday to Greece and just fell in love with it. — Craig Revel Horwood Copy Share Image
A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“You are a reader, not a cheerleader" (from interview at Lilies and Cannonballs Review)” — Inigo Garcia Ureta Copy Share Image
“Library stacks from this perspective are not a repository; they are a crowd.” — Kenneth A. Bruffee Copy Share Image
“The longer she read the more wonderful and more real the pictures became.” — Alice Ozma Copy Share Image
Writing is one of those jobs that everyone has an opinion on. I don't think this is a bad thing. — Jack Thorne Copy Share Image
