We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page and closing the book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Indeed, every book on my shelves is a key to a little vault of memories. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing. — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
I didn't get one word published until I was well into my 30s. But I always tried. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Everyone should agree that the library is kinda the best place to talk with friends.. — Kand3n Copy Share Image
“Writing is a lot like life, the more you learn the more you realize that you don’t have a clue” — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
If you take 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' as books, one is written for children, and one is an… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
“When you read a book, the story definitely happens inside your head. When you listen, it seems to happen in a little… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“People should know better than to be an ass in front of writers. We immortalize things. Lots of things. And we take… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
“How many books on manifesting will you buy before your realize that all you have manifested is a bunch of useless books?… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“His apartment is small and filled with books from the toilet tank to the top of the fridge. I think he has… — Jennifer Lynch Copy Share Image
I have to re-write a lot. I couldn't tell you how many drafts I write, but I know I've done at least… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
You say fate is almost indispensable to literature - I think it's completely indispensable, at least in a novel, because a novel… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other ways, I'm… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To… — Enid Bagnold Copy Share Image
“Benjamin glanced at his eager driver. “The children’s author Roald Dahl said of Romanée-Conti: ‘Sense for me this perfume! Breathe this bouquet!… — Jean-Pierre Alaux Copy Share Image
“...the representation of human character and personality remains always the supreme literary value, whether in drama, lyric or narrative. I am naive… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat of, but they do… — Leonardo Da Vinci Reproductions Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children, or you read books for adults. — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
I just want the fans of the book to be happy. I don't necessarily care about anyone else. — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Writing is just always hard for me. It always feels like drawing blood. It's never particularly easy. — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
“A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there.” — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead. — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Every writer dips his brush into his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
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