A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
FBI Girl is touching and funny, inspiring and tragic, enlightening and sad. I closed the book with tears in my eyes and… — Beverly Donofrio Copy Share Image
“There are only three truths. That which can be known. That which can never be known. The third, which concerns the writer… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
I don't see how you can write well if you're not reading well at the same time. I think the only risk… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I have my own e-reader, but I hardly ever use it. I need to fold down pages and flag passages with sticky… — Lauren Morrill Copy Share Image
As a child, I amused myself by making up stories. I'd lie in bed when I was supposed to be sleeping and… — Victoria Hanley Copy Share Image
Long ago I abandoned my masterpiece a roll of paper thirty yards long which I filled completely with minute handwriting in my… — Peter Weiss Copy Share Image
“If you love the language, the greatest thing you can do to ensure its survival is not to complain about bad usage… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more or less… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“The serious writer was aware of a paradox at the heart of his art: his inner world, the place of the strongest… — Marcus Speh Copy Share Image
I was a 20-something woman living in London and didn't want to write about a 20-something woman living in London! It's an… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
I used to type, but now, typing or working with a computer, I get a stiff neck. So I prefer writing longhand. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users. — Ken Jennings Copy Share Image
Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me,… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“It’s remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is… — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
Pulver's skills as a post-Beat visionary are in rare form. A House of Hollow Wounds is a thrilling foray into the dark… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct. — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task.… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
A dislike button especially after the quote doesnt mean the lack of thinking of its writer but it probably describes the ignorance… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Writers who aren't from rural states in the Midwest or the West often treat such people as if they were the Waltons… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
Writing is this act of faith - a bit like driving in the fog: you can hardly see just in front of… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The violence and double-talk in the Alice books probably does no harm to children, but the novels should not be allowed to… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Writing comes from that territory of being invalidated. But I had a sense of purpose, too. I wanted to stop apologising for… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“A well-stocked, well-staffed library is like a gardener who plants books, knowledge, and dreams and grows readers, learners, and do-ers.” — Laura Purdie Salas Copy Share Image
I am strangely addicted to the writing of long letters, which, I am afraid, tire you; and for the future, I believe,… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
“One of the advantages of reading books is that you get to play with someone else's imaginary friends, at all hours of… — Dr. SunWolf Copy Share Image
You could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mental health, I need… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
