Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
“I like Sade. I’m re-reading Juliette. I skip the philosophy and read the salacious bits. His descriptive imagination is incredible.” — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
I love my journal as much as I love my phone. I find it to be a big part of my self-care… — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
“In writing 'here', I freely admit that many times I read it 'there' and placed it 'here'. But the ultimate joy comes… — Garry Fitchett Copy Share Image
“I believe that the choice of a first book, the book that opens your eyes and quickens your soul, is as involuntary… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“What are all these writers fighting for? For their own victory or for the victory of their profession?” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
I'm out there to clean the plate. Once they've read what I've written on a subject, I want them to think, 'That's… — Richard Ben Cramer Copy Share Image
Luck took me right out of myself - I read it in one gulp, and it never let me down. Sharp and… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different,… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“In a way, an autobiography seems to me like a household book of accounts – what has been acquired, to what purpose… — Elizabeth Jane Howard Copy Share Image
We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to know… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“And in his dream, Coyotito was reading from a book as large as a house, with letters as big as dogs, and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Learning to read – really read, that is, to spend hours alone lost in a book – requires example and solitude, and… — Andrew Cook Copy Share Image
If there is a secret to writing, I haven’t found it yet. All I know is you need to sit down, clear… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
I'm writing a science book - a sort of compendium of all the ways I've found of explaining things to my artsy… — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile… — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“The fastest way to revise a piece of work is to send it, late at night, to someone whose opinion you fear.… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
“Modern writers usually don't know what it was like to live in the past, but Rushworth-Brown has done this with great skill… — Paul Rushworth-Brown Copy Share Image
Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles. — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“Paradoxism is not just another linguistic term or a literature device, but perhaps it is the definition of our post-postmodernism and metamodernism.” — Rao Umar Javed Copy Share Image
Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“If you want to become a better writer, you have to write. But you also have to read. One of the things… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
