Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library. — Mark Jason Dominus Copy Share Image
Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.” — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think… — Crystal Bowersox Copy Share Image
The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read… — Carlton Cuse Copy Share Image
“Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries. J.B. PRIESTLEY” — Janice Lane Palko Copy Share Image
Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Sweetie, if you opened a book more times than you opened your legs,you might actually get somewhere in life. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
The kind of writing that matters most to me is something you don't learn about. It's constantly coming out of what I… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She is the founder and owner of Luft Books, an independent publishing company, and the author of Bias Cut, Lonely” — Morgan Richter Copy Share Image
“Academic writers are bad writers for three reasons. First, they want to sound smart. “If the water is dark,” goes a German… — Paul J. Silvia Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that you might create any sort of character in a novel and there would be at least one… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“I don’t think I’m an exceptionally bad reader. I suspect that many people, maybe even most, are like me. We read and… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
I seem most instinctively to believe in the human value of creative writing, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The writing is - I'm free from pain. It's the place where I live; it's where I have control; it's where nobody… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I don't think Donald Barthelme would have minded being called a confusing writer. Confusion was a favorite subject for him in his… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
When I write, it's to heal. It's my own self-therapy so that I don't actually feel sad all of the time. — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close.” — Tawny Lara Copy Share Image
“A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever.” — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
“My words emerge as a stallion standing firm even when none have the ability to ride them.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
“I want to be -That guy who wrote that thing there,- but I'm currently, -He's who, who wrote what?-” — Michael Kroft Copy Share Image
I think the only way you can become a writer is through honing your voice, creating your own voice. — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
I don't need any more stories. I have enough stories. I need a life. — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing. — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying. — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
