I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I always find out after the fact that the books I've been writing were actually some sort of therapy, some sort of,… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
Reading opens your mind and helps you understand and empathize with people who are unlike you and outside your breadth of experience. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
“Approaching quietly, she knelt on the carpet at her side, and looked over her little shoulder at her book. It was a… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Stop to read good writers who are witty and are fun, 'cause that's the kind of fuel on which your Train of… — Mister Lemur Copy Share Image
I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
“Writing allows a person to explore both physical reality and the internal workings of their mind. Writing places us in touch with… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I have ventured out and written about real-life experiences that I haven't gone through myself, but I've known people to go through… — Cassadee Pope Copy Share Image
But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
“This profusion of questions, exclamations, and tales is the new version of the Society. Its members are spread all over the world,… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn’t have to… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Philip Galanes makes his debut with a novel that is both heartbreaking and deftly comic, the story of a young man struggling… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
“The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions. — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
“I mean 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
“You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside of them," said Meggie...” — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I tried to write the book [Today Matters] with integrity and say, health is one of my daily dozen, and I work… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
It wasn't a decision to become a writer. I wanted to become a writer of crime fiction. I was very specific. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week,… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“She might ban me from the library." "The marvelous thing about libraries is that their contents can be easily moved.” — Alissa Johnson Copy Share Image
Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text. — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
“I have this thing about books – a disease almost – that won’t let me give up until I’ve read to the… — Nicola Haken Copy Share Image
The thing is, with writing, it's form or content. You need to write about something interesting or you need to write about… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
It is clear from Salman Rushdie's writing that politics and literature cannot be separated. Everything is political. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
One of the things that's complicated about writing anything is that it's an act of narcissism, and then of course once it… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you aren't a reader and you have a kid with his face buried in books, it can be a bit threatening.… — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“...one of the main purposes of our assesment is to find evidence of the children using these ideas to make decisions about… — Katie Wood Ray Copy Share Image
Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork.… — Virginia Euwer Wolff Copy Share Image
“Having a nice library doesn’t make you smart. Don’t buy books and stack them up in your library; read them.” — Mensah Oteh Copy Share Image
“The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
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