Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“If you have friends who say they don't read, you need new friends. That is my final answer.” — Niedria Dionne Kenny Copy Share Image
I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out. — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“I'd decided to establish a new rule for myself: read for half an hour an evening, no matter what.” — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The best education for a writer, I think, is to read a lot - college can be a good place to do… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
“Fiction is a mix of reality, the interpretation of that reality and a lot of "what if".” — Jim Sellers Copy Share Image
When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“...for literature had always been a solace for him, something that the ugliness of facts could not spoil.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
I just preach the importance of reading, the importance of learning and challenging yourself to be the best you can be in… — Ha Ha Clinton-Dix Copy Share Image
It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going. — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
An able reader often discovers in other people's writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When I spoke at the 2012 Contemporary Women Writers' Conference in Taipei, I thought it offered an appropriate moment and site to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for… — Katerina Stoykova Klemer Copy Share Image
A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“The first duty of an Author is --- I conceive --- a faithful allegiance to Truth and Nature; his second, such a… — Juliet Barker Copy Share Image
'The Giver' by Lois Lowry - I had to read this in school, and I fell in love with it. It was… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
I do feel like I'm in this lucky position where I can write something and people will read it, and I feel… — David Liss Copy Share Image
Think about reading: Today, parents would love it if their kids read books more because the parents understand the books. Just over… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
“Every novel is brand-new. It’s never been written before in the history of the world. At the same time, it’s merely the… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“People wandered in for books and conversation. They brought their stories to her, some bound, and some known by heart. She recognized… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
