There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my… — Aubrey Plaza Copy Share Image
I wanted to achieve something because I thought that we should not just be born and live, so I started writing books. — Chef Damu Copy Share Image
Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish desperately that I could write like someone else, be someone else. No one particularly. Just if I could put… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War. — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals,… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“A longing for books [is] nothing compared with what you [can] feel for human beings. The books [tell] you about that feeling.… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“Librarians, to Melanie, were somewhat in a par with god -- who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If you tell an amateur that his story is not good, he always declares indignantly: 'Oh, but it really happened just like… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I believe that books, like people, come to us at the perfect time, with a purpose to either bring awareness to something… — Lindsay Carricarte-Jones Copy Share Image
Take your time, however long the book needs. I've seen a lot of promising careers go into decline because writers succumbed to… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
“The most I can ever do is write things down. To remember them. The details. To honor them in some way.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Authors can only soft sell the environment. Create a wonderful story around the environment involving the characters that leaves a lasting impression… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“When I first opened this book and saw all those scholarly footnotes, my heart leapt up as though I saw a host… — Steven Moore Copy Share Image
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even… — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge… — George Burns Copy Share Image
I don't think it's man's function to write. I don't think it's a normal thing like teeth-brushing and going to the bathroom.… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“If people are going to keep a journal, they should do it when they’re little, where all the good things happen, before… — Beatrice Sparks Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I knew generally what I was going to do, but I've never written anything down. Call it a sixth sense: the… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
Books can be a source of solace, but I see them mainly as a source of pleasure, personal as well as esthetic. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“I drive my husband crazy because I don’t browse books—I buy books. And he’s always giving me these ultimatums like, ‘If you… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
One of the good things about consulting is that you leave the writers' room for a couple of days, things progress, you… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought… — Adam Langer Copy Share Image
I've been writing fiction since I was a kid. From the age of 15 to 25, I probably wrote more than 50… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I usually go to bed early to read. I read and I always say that I'm not a "bohemian artist;" I need… — Michal Rovner Copy Share Image
Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo. — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
Gentlemen use books as Gentlewomen handle their flowers, who in the morning stick them in their heads, and at night strawe them… — John Lyly Copy Share Image
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