“In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
However, a rich print environment helps only when more reading is done. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
There is a difference between writing and being an author. Authors talk. I'm standing here talking now. This has nothing to do… — T. R. Pearson Copy Share Image
I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want. — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17. — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
The art of writing, like the art of love, runs all the way from a kind of routine hard to distinguish from… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Unpersecuted, unjailed, unharrassed writers are trouble for the ignorant bully, the sly racist, and the predators feeding off the world's resources. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“It’s not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Simply put, you can read a story in a single sitting and hold it all in your mind. You can experience all… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
My best times are midnight to six actually. I'll leaf through my notebooks and if something catches my eye and I feel… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
But revision is a creative act, not merely an analytical imposition of rules of style on a more creative first draft. That's… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it's possible to say anything about them. And… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
Most of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
A journal is a very personal thing. As far as possible, to write this sort of book you need to know and… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
“Most people have a list of 100 books to read before they die, or 100 places to visit. Not me. I have… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Vonnegut is one of America's basic artists, a true and worthy heir to the grand tradition of Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, Dreiser, Traven,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
