“There are several GREAT places to buy books while visiting in Cherry Hill Pennsylvania” — Ida Mingle Copy Share Image
I have a very short attention span, so books have never been my thing. — Jason Jones Copy Share Image
I admire Laura Bush because she's the only librarian who would marry an illiterate. — Hal Sparks Copy Share Image
Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money,… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close… — Patty Duke Copy Share Image
“I want people who write to crash or dive below the surface, where life is so cold and confusing and hard to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“His elegant librarianship ... made me appreciate how order is created: Not through grand schemes - to which I was often drawn… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
I only make notes, I don't write dialogues in full. And the notes are very much based on my knowledge of person. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside-and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that… — Camron Wright Copy Share Image
“The Librarian swung on. It was slow progress, because there were things he wasn't keen on meeting. Creatures evolved to fill every… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
[Hemingway] always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“I think of writing as a partnership with the reader. My goal is to feed their imagination, but only partially. If you… — S.J. Pierce Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
A book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Literature could turn you into an asshole: he’d learned that teaching grad-school seminars. It could teach you to treat real people the… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I'm a writer, not an activist. My job is to analyse things, to think them through and examine them. — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it. — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
People will still give me attention: even when my teeth are gone, I'll have some good stories to tell. — Nargis Fakhri Copy Share Image
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“All writing affects change, whether personal, professional, spiritual, or practical.” — Miles Tager Copy Share Image
I'm never really conscious of what I'm being influenced by when I'm writing. — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
Write what you know. Write what you don't know. But most of all, write what you'd rather not know. — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“How do you get free of the damnable books of Romance when everybody else is still living in them?” — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I very much want to write about some elements of my own growing up. — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
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