Sylvie’s knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, ‘The sign that one has acquired one’s learning from reading novels rather than an… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Fenworth owned a world-famous library. More rooms held books than beds. Pillows stuffed in niches and comfortable chairs scattered throughout each room… — Donita K. Paul Copy Share Image
That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
you pay a price for the 'gift' of an active imagination. While mine played a major part in making me a writer,… — Jean Little Copy Share Image
What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“However great a man's natural talent may be, the art of writing cannot be learned all at once. Jean-Jaeques Rousseau” — Jean-Jaeques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I got to take classes in writing with a fountain pen, and actually, something you make is your own textbook. So, while… — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
“Good fiction doesn’t claim to mirror reality at all. It indicts reality by providing a paradigm of shape and order and justice—the… — P.S. Baber Copy Share Image
You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then.… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
“Don't you ever get tired of reading?" she asked. "You could hardly be called good company! Don't you know that, with women,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Librarians, to Melanie, were somewhat on par wit God- who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I do enjoy writing, and I hope someone gets something interesting out of this book. I already have. Now, If I ever… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
The student may read Homer or Ãâ schylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that hein… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There are those who write because they believe they have something so marvelous that it will make them famous and wealthy, a… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet. — John Updike Copy Share Image
People always say, 'Write what you know', but I've always found that to be terrible advice. It's quite limiting, what you know. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I'm looking forward… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
I do not know how old I was when the daydreams became more than that, and I decided to write them down,… — Mildred D. Taylor Copy Share Image
“I am glad I have found a readership, but one can't write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
I think the book business is really sitting on the greatest moment in the history of time. We are providing the stories… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I had decided to become a bookseller because I loved good books. I assumed there must be many others who shared a… — Stuart Brent Copy Share Image
“(At this point some readers are quite likely to close this book and never open it again … but I hope you… — Brian Zahnd Copy Share Image
I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
“You wrote a fucking book. Do you know how many people wish they could do that, or how many people talk about… — Rachel Lynn Solomon Copy Share Image
“Talking about ideas for a novel is a bit like showing pictures of the ultrasound if you're pregnant. Until they're out in… — Clare Boylan Copy Share Image
I'll borrow words from all my favourite paragraphs, to write about all of these faded things we hope would mean the most… — Mayday Parade Copy Share Image
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