“In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“People need books for a better life. Books are a way of self-nurturing.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
“Rook is reading the bulletin intently, like she’s studying for a test. God, I love her.” — J.A. Huss Copy Share Image
One Best Book Is Equal To Hundred Good Friends.. But One Best Friend Is More Than A Library — Anwar Saicha Copy Share Image
“Perspective was my secret weapon, and books gave me plenty of ammunition.” — Ian McNulty Copy Share Image
“Both of them are obvious dwellers in the valley of the shadow of books.” — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I guess I feel it's funny to be looked to for advice on writing when I am still taking in so much… — Becky Albertalli Copy Share Image
I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
As a writer, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring. — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life,… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I feel like it's a really natural part of writing: You lose perspective, and you have to let it go sometimes in… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
“A book, he thinks at one point, rubbing his eyes, tired from so much focused reading. It's a world all on its… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
I don't write huge books any more. I used to write 1,000 printed pages, but now I write short books. I did… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of 'somedays'. Plant your… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know… — David Small Copy Share Image
There isn't going to be anyone to tell you what to do most of the time. It has to be your own… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
“Forget what they say about “write what you know.” Write what excites your imagination, and the knowledge you need can be acquired.… — Charles Kowalski Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is a bit like surfing," he said. "Most of the time you're waiting. And it's quite pleasant, sitting in… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time. — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings! — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write. — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
“Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
