“A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.” — Chris Baty Copy Share Image
writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on. — Delia Ephron Copy Share Image
The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book. — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
“Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge,… — John Cotton Dana Copy Share Image
I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
Faith is a talent, and it goes the way of all your talents. Getting old is the subtraction of your powers. Which… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
ONE BLOOD is a richly detailed, intricately woven tale rendered in lush, evocative prose. This memorable debut heralds Qwantu Amaru as a… — Brandon Massey Copy Share Image
What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm… — Arthur Hailey Copy Share Image
An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I know the American Library Association has models for working with the poor. They do have that, and I think that we… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“I cannot imagine not reading. Some books, of course, are like lovers; you go to bed with them once and fall asleep… — Joe Bennett Copy Share Image
“...reading literature could teach you about the "universal human experience". Maybe you'll never hunt another man through the jungle. Maybe you won't… — Steve Dublanica Copy Share Image
'We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“A writer inevitably - and less directly this applies to all the arts - about contemporary events, and his impulse is to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I don't have time to read much. I'm trying to read 'The Brothers Karamazov' again, for a year now - I keep… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
A young person, or someone who's writing in a different way - in some ways you could say, eventually someone will find… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, 'Take me home!' And… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm really excited about public libraries that are redefining themselves as free learning centers. — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
“Each Reading is another form of Time Travel or Experiencing the Multiverse.” — Pradip Bendkule Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books. — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
It must be extremely uncomfortable to live with a writer - all that preoccupation and brooding. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good. — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Books are written to take you places planes could never reach, so let your imagination soar.” — R.L. Stoll Copy Share Image
If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
