“They found Mr. Bennet still up. With a book he was regardless of time;...” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Picture books are an emotional medium. They need to make us feel something. — Marla Frazee Copy Share Image
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I've always been prepared to write about the hard things. Only for healing, teaching, and enlightening purposes not to hurt or disparage… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
The most joyful part of writing, for me, is when I am 90% there, and suddenly the story clicks into place, and… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
For so long, we had to write to pay a bill, we had to write in many instances where maybe you weren't… — Joe Budden Copy Share Image
“What I have written is drawn from experience — from seeing, hearing and working with mountaineers. In a land with few books… — Harry M. Caudill Copy Share Image
I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I'm writing a diary to… — Petra Nemcova Copy Share Image
There's an outline for each of the books that I adhere to pretty closely, but I'm not averse to taking it in… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
“The only course to pursue to make life bearable on such a day, at least for women (I speak not of men,… — Rhoda Broughton Copy Share Image
I'd gotten the message in my home, starting with my grandfather, that real work, the kind that makes you sweat and gets… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
“I've never written a book, except my first, without at some point considering that I might die before it was completed. This… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“It’s very hard — weirdly hard — to clear your mind of all that crap so that you can just sit down… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“Reading a book was a meditative act, but it didn’t involve a clearing of the mind. It involved a filling, or replenishing,… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“The truth is, my friend, you never know where a book will take you.” — M. Scott Snelten Copy Share Image
“A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents.” — Allison Hoover Bartlett Copy Share Image
“No one cares about books, that’s why you can write anything you want in them.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“write something you feel about, than delete it. bam! you go back to the start with fresh mind” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
If I get to tell good stories with good people, that's good enough for me. — Judge Reinhold Copy Share Image
