Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Transformational Fiction teaches how to assess, understand, and heal sexuality.” — Anne Stirling Hastings Ph. D Copy Share Image
“There was no way in hell she was going to move to the southern continent without all of her books.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I… — Ester Dean Copy Share Image
If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Why writers write I do not know. As well ask why a hen lays an egg or why a cow stands patiently… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I've done well because I'm lucky and I'm willing to be collaborative with the one thing you don't want to be collaborative… — James Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal… — Adele Copy Share Image
Books are just dead words on paper and it is the readers who bring the stories alive. Previously, writers wrote a book… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support system. Her life has been informed by reading. She has read not… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Truth be told, I didn't want to be on T.V. I was going to be a writer or producer or a director,… — Al Roker Copy Share Image
“Your intention is for readers to benefit from your experiences and avoid the costly and time consuming mistakes you may have made.… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek Copy Share Image
“If you’re working with a writer, chances are you’re an expert. And if you’re an expert, chances are you’re boring. You can’t… — David Litt Copy Share Image
So much of my own life inspires what I write. Whether it's work, family, friends, motherhood, I am a writer who tends… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
“My brother was one of the bigger influences in my life, in as much as he told me I didn't have to… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write. — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“Writing is what we do for a living; reviewing is what gangster bullies do for fun!” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“The papers of Jerry Fairbanks Studios lie uncatalogued in the basement of the UCLA research library.” — Val Holley Copy Share Image
One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar. — Jack Paar Copy Share Image
“Books are my refuge. I can crawl into the space between the pages and curl my back to loneliness.” — Anubhav Mishra Copy Share Image
