Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy. — Edith Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Reading is like dreaming. You can't control anything, but it takes you to another world” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every day, I write. I have a writing period - it's usually in the morning - or I'm writing songs. — Bill Ward Copy Share Image
I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Corrupt people fear books because they contain something more powerful than themselves: ideas.” — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book;… — Paula Danziger Copy Share Image
Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
“He was a professor, a lover of stories, and he was building her a library in the same way other men might… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
The Next Right Thing has humanity, humor, and insight to burn. Author Dan Barden takes the clay of the California hard-boiled novel… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I think the moment you're writing about somebody who's not exactly you, then the challenge is all equal. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Plot these days is anti-intellectual and verboten, the mark of the Philistine, the huckster with a pen. There mustn't be too much… — Robert Traver Copy Share Image
When you wrote it didn't matter if hysteria sometimes came up in your face and voice (unless, of course, you let it… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
There is a book into which some of us are happily led to look, and to look again, and never tire of… — Walter Besant Copy Share Image
The difference between being a part-time writer and a full-time writer is like the difference between dating someone and living with them.… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
“Many writers have reported being able to forestall the petty annoyances of life by maintaining the shared illusion that they are working… — Kenneth B. Lifshitz Copy Share Image
“Writing is reverse metamorphosis. One entombs a beautiful idea in a chrysalis of paper or electronic bits and bites, and when you’re… — Kermit E. Heartsong Copy Share Image
Knowing that books are something that is hidden, that almost has that alchemical quality to it. There is a secret society in… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
I want to be positive and say: everything I've written will get made eventually. — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The only thing I like about libraries is that people are encouraged to shut up. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate. — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“The more you read within a balanced life, the more time you have. Strange but true.” — Mark O'Brien Copy Share Image
“This set includes my exclusive novel REBEL, a story of piracy, ancient secrets,” — Edward W. Robertson Copy Share Image
I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In terms of the symbolism, I think that if you do it right, writing is a bit like dreaming. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
“READING CAN EDUCATE YOU AND IF YOUR BORED SOME BOOKS THAT ARE INTERESTING. ” — Antonio de Andrade Copy Share Image
“Everyone is a reader... Some just haven't found their favourite book yet.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
