I may not want to write every day, but I have no choice - there are deadlines to meet. — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“I like to think that when I complete a novel I learned something along the way.” — Michael J. Kannengieser Copy Share Image
Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot. 'Were” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Reading can only take you so far, up to the moment where you must take action with your own hands” — Rae Carson Copy Share Image
What is missed when people talk about books is the moment of grace when the reader creates the book, lends it the… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Irene Bennett Brown keeps the promise of her gifted writing and love for history inside this fine contemporary mystery. I loved it. — Jane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
“He described the Literary Apothecary to her. “A longboat with a low-slung belly, a galley, two sleeping berths, a bathroom and eight… — Nina George Copy Share Image
“Fiction that fails to engage an audience with the emotional intricacies of viable characters will, for many in that audience, simply alienate… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
It's really important to make the time to curl up and not look at a screen at night. Just to escape into… — Sara Cox Copy Share Image
I have an agent, John Brockman, who is an agent to many academic authors like Dan Gilbert and Steven Pinker, and he's… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable." Louisa May Alcott” — R.R. Smythe Copy Share Image
Writers are not celebrities, so you don't expect to walk down the street and hear, 'Oh my God, there's Sylvia Day.' You… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in a novel is time. You've got [a line like] "two weeks later, he woke up with a headache,"… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on… — S. Ansky Copy Share Image
Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“For heaven’s sake, don’t turn reading into the intellectual equivalent of eating organic greens, or (shifting the metaphor slightly) some fearfully disciplined… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
Looking back at my younger self, that I'm not so different than I am now. I was always a seeker. I wanted… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The inspiration for my novels comes from the depths of a creative well, based on asking myself questions over and over. I… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Life is like a book, some friends make till the end and others get lost in the chapters — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves. — Will Thomas Copy Share Image
If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
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One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is every happy anywhere. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
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“Libraries should be the beating heart of the school, not mausoleums for dusty books.” — Stephanie Harvey Copy Share Image
Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
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Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I guess my comfort zone as a writer is diametrically opposed to my comfort zone as a human being. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
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