Librarians are not just gatekeepers to knowledge, they are what the American Indians used to call their special sages who preserved the… — James H. Billington Copy Share Image
Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were… — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
“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
I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
I always really loved Russian literature, and I think Tolstoy's writing is full of a sense of melancholy and humanity, so it… — Tuppence Middleton Copy Share Image
When an older writer tries to tell a younger writer through a review what kind of career she should be pursuing, it… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Of course at that point I had no idea that the adventure was only beginning and that the struggle and the rejections… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
My writing regimen is not very regimented. I tend to be a binge writer, working sometimes in the morning and sometimes all… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
If you want to be a fiction writer, you need to start reading like a fiction writer. To do so, you need… — John McNally Copy Share Image
"Only write what you know" is very good advice. I do my best to stick to it. I wrote about gods and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“One of the most interesting parts of writing is that you can think about it all of the time. Writers get their… — Edgardo H Pangilinan Copy Share Image
“What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And -- though played out forms can… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I don't change the language for children books. I don't make the language simpler. I use words that they might have to… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“The library spilled onto the floor and into the other rooms. Some books held up wobbly tables, others were literally swept under… — Michael Buckley Copy Share Image
I first told the idea to an editor I had met who, after reading one of my novels for adults that was… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I skip the introduction. If the book goes in the trash, I want it to go because of my thoughts on it,… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained form actual life is… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
My life has been such a blur since I was 18, 19 years old. I haven't even had time to contemplate my… — Grant Achatz Copy Share Image
Nowadays people write English as if a rat were caught in the typewriter and they were trying to hit the keys which… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
“I'm visualizing the letters that make up your name, but my brain has written it in Courier and the font size is… — Chelsea Martin Copy Share Image
As a writer, I think your first job is to find a subject that you think you and others will find inherently… — Stuart Blumberg Copy Share Image
“I wanted to read all these books, but I would have to have been in a rest home or something to do… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for… — Jack London Copy Share Image
My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough? — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
“...maybe great books were coiled within him like springs, books that could have separated inside from outside.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Long into my career I harbored a secret sense that thinking and reading and writing, as much as I loved them, did… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“From my writer's workshop, "Know when it's time to put everything you've got on the page. Then, rip open a vein and… — Heather Burch Copy Share Image
I write about what worries me and, hopefully, things worry me a little bit earlier than they do some other people, purely… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
There's a book called 'Where The Wild Things Are,' by American writer Maurice Sendak... it really is the most sublime book. It's… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
