The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Recently, I've really responded to books that bring the magic of childhood back to us as adults. — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
“...demons do tend to cluster around the yellowing pages and cracked spines of second hand books.” — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
“Also, how could anyone who loves books not love a book that is itself so in love with books?” — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we're friendly. So there. — Maria Dahvana Headley Copy Share Image
I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Copywriters on Madison Avenue constantly grapple with the question of where their work sits on the totem pole of 'real' writing. — David Droga Copy Share Image
“Did you ever read The Cat's Revenge , by Claude Balls? Did you ever read The Passionate Russian , by E. Nawdor… — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
Of course, authors can still burn their manuscripts - but once something is out in the world, especially if it ever saw… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
“Nor would I willingly miss the early darkness and the pleasant firelight tea and the long evenings among my books.” — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s… — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write. — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
One of my passions is that children enjoy their time at school - and reading for pleasure can be an important part… — Charles Clarke Copy Share Image
I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that we’re unique… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
When I'm sitting at my computer writing, I really have this fiendish smile on my face. I am not thinking about the… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
Writers will see your work and want to try you in different things but I think you have to stay true to… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
“...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
To aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible,… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
“I hate to be a nag, but you have got to read. Like most authors, I run creative writing workshops from time… — Sarah Harrison Copy Share Image
“The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Good libraries hold several millions of books: even if we read a book a day, we would read only 365 a year,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Reading is the most special of therapies for ending a tension-filled day.” — Shanthi Gopalan Copy Share Image
“Books are Lighthouses erected in the sea of time." Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest” — Alex St. Clair Copy Share Image
“One book, printed in the Heart's own wax / Is worth a thousand in the stack's” — Jan Luyken Copy Share Image
“I was a child who loved books, and I am an adult who is the product of books.” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
Even I thought I would be a writer who put something out every year. But that's not how it worked out. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week. — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
You can't tell people how to feel when they read your work. You can only hope to connect. — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
