The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained. — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
I would advise budding writers some other kind of job, unless they think they're very, very lucky. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
All my books are adventures, but they also have a social viewpoint. — Anatoly Rybakov Copy Share Image
If you leave anyone with a undone page, someone who came prepared will finish it. — Rasheed Bryant Copy Share Image
A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like… — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
Even the choicest literature should be taken as the condiment, and not as the sustenance of life. It should be neither the… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is horrible to sit in front of the keyboard and write those scenes because you're losing too. You lose somebody you… — Scott M. Gimple Copy Share Image
“And it is also the only reward for my work: to feel what I have written is like the back of a… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
There's a lot of thievery involved in writing. You're breaking into other people's spaces and other people's stories. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
Browsing the first editions at my local independent bookstore, I came across 'Pastoralia,' a collection of stories by George Saunders. I'd read… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
“Because you can always count on a book to stay the same . Everything changes when you least expect it, she replies,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Elena Ferrante is the author of several novels. There is nothing mysterious about her, given how she manifests herself - perhaps even… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“ Just So You Know You fall in love with every book you touch. You never break the spine or tear the… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
A modern librarian, who has faith in the law that 'BOOKS ARE FOR USE,' is happy only when his readers make his… — S. R. Ranganathan Copy Share Image
“A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“What I find difficult, when I read, is to encounter other people’s achievements passed off as one’s own. I find it difficult… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
What more do I need to say? Conservative books sell. I can't help it if liberal books don't sell. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
To write something you have to feel it and know it, and that's not comfortable. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me. — Lee Child Copy Share Image
A book does not make bad jokes, drink too much or eat more than you can afford to pay for. — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
“the thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read.” — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
