It doesn't matter how you live and die, it's how the bards wrote it down. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
There's some intimacy in reading, some thoughtfulness that doesn't exist in machine experiences. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
“No matter how many books I write, I will eventually get to fiction. That is where I'm going.” — Neil Young Copy Share Image
“Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.” — Augusta Scattergood Copy Share Image
I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“All of our lives are a living, breathing story, and each heartbeat means a new page has been turned; chapters don't close,… — Jeff Dixon - Storming the Kingdom Copy Share Image
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite. — Novalis Copy Share Image
“The Battle Creek, Michigan, headquarters of Kellogg’s looks like a spaceship built to look like a pyramid that was then hastily converted… — B.J. Novak Copy Share Image
Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later. — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
“Dear Aspiring Writer, you are not ready. Stop. Put that finished story away and start another one. In a month, go back… — Inez Kelley Copy Share Image
Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through… — David McCord Copy Share Image
You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character… — John Green Copy Share Image
“If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist because you’re… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I suppose the book I really remember loving as a child was one called 'The Outsiders' by S.E. Hinton, about a gang… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“5 1/2 centuries after its 1.0 release, the book is a surprisingly robust piece of information technology. Sure, its memory is relatively… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
I can't write a book like 'Lamb' or 'Fool' every year. It just takes too much research and craft. — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete...you feel as if you could do anything.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
“Writing fluency sometimes needs an intense agony somewhere in your mind” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Unlike a state, a writer cannot plead the historical necessity of his actions. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The only way to really know whether or not you will like a book, is to read it.” — John Campedelli Copy Share Image
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it. — Moliere Copy Share Image
