“You don’t look like the librarians I remember,” he told her. “We’ve changed. There was a whole press release issued about it,… — Susan Mallery Copy Share Image
He asked Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know I suppose I love them… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so… — Elle Macpherson Copy Share Image
“Consciously or unconsciously, the reader is dissatisfied with being told only what is not; the reader wishes to be told what is...… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
“I am addicted to reading, I will never reach the end of my TBR list because it multiplies all by itself. It… — Lani Copy Share Image
“Every writer in the history of the world has been afraid to put words on the page. But we only remember those… — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
You can't write about a personal struggle if you're going to water it down to meet everyone's expectations about what's appropriate. — Heidi Roizen Copy Share Image
Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“Write naked. That means to write what you would never say. Write in blood. As if ink is so precious you can’t… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
Support your public library! It is a treasure and a legacy that will provide entertainment, information, a sense of community, and real… — John Lescroart Copy Share Image
“While writing the first draft is an exercise in shutting down all of the things we think we know so that the… — Patricia Hickman Copy Share Image
Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Words of wisdom, the meaning of life, p e r h a p s even the answer sought by Borges's librarians—all of… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“In my twenties if even a tenth reading of Mallarmé failed to yield up its treasures, the fault was mine, not his.… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
'Top Of The Lake' is a great story with a beginning, and a middle and an end, about darkness - it's like… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
If you can instill a love of reading in your children, they will be ahead of the curve at school and in… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I definitely write about my life and the issues I might have or the dilemmas I'm going through, but usually I write… — Oh Land Copy Share Image
Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
See, what I don't like listening to is when writers go, 'And then the person cries.' 'Or the person does this.' It's… — Kim Coates Copy Share Image
How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“I always return home to the same few authors. And, no matter how many times I return, I always find they have… — Charles Chu Copy Share Image
Anonymity usually arouses a great interest and curiosity but on the background of extraordinary style of writing mixed with brilliant humour the… — Kotlesya Copy Share Image
“I love ebooks. I love the idea of storing books in “The Cloud”, because honestly, reading and rainy days go together like… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
The technology I like is the American paperback edition of 'Freedom.' I can spill water on it, and it would still work!… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself,… — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“If a writer doesn't believe his fictional characters are actually real, how can he expect the readers to?” — Jim Power Copy Share Image
“Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding.” — Meghan Lamb Copy Share Image
I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“I mean I would rather be a librarian but I worry about the job security, books may be temporary dicks are forever.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions. — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
“You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside of them," said Meggie...” — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The thing is not to write what no one else could have written, but to write what only you could have written.” — Nam Le Copy Share Image
