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Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
It's kind of strange-- in fiction you get to tell lies and are applauded for it. — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
“Transformational Fiction teaches how to assess, understand, and heal sexuality.” — Anne Stirling Hastings Ph. D Copy Share Image
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I am a writer: to the core of my being, the marrow of my bones. . . to the depth of my… — Valjeanne Jeffers Copy Share Image
If reality and fiction are equal, then any reality you dont need can just be called delusion. Thats how we do things. — Erika Karisawa Copy Share Image
Write from your heart, write from your soul.. make the best of your talent and don't ever let it go not for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are .… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We joke a lot about how, in Hollywood, the writer is one step below the doormat. That's not self-loathing. That's true! — Robert Ben Garant Copy Share Image
“When I started writing every day, I realized a painful truth: I can’t react and create at the same time. Neither can… — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici is a dramatic, epic novel of an all-too-human woman whose strength and passion propelled her into… — Sandra Gulland Copy Share Image
“If (when) she got back to her typewriter she'd begin these tongue-in-cheek screenplays over from the top, telling them with faith in… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“A book--a real book--is one choice, taken from a pile, opened and entered as its own singular, separate world. Once chosen, you… — K.J. Dell'Antonia Copy Share Image
an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The therapeutic effect of reading was not a new concept to the librarians running the VBC (Victory Book Campaign). In the editorial… — Molly Guptill Manning Copy Share Image
“It makes logical sense that 168 is a greater number than 17, so why would you shelve 168 first? Because a librarian… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
Writing is learned by imitation. If anyone asked me how I learned to write, I'd say I learned by reading the men… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“he has bushy blond eyebrows and a voice that makes her think of damask. One afternoon a week or so after New… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image