Learned to love the fact recognized in the books seems to be only good things, O world, we capture the essence of… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“If you're a college student, the equivalent of a weeks reading for classes, can be about the same amount of a book.… — Tiffany Acevedo Copy Share Image
Remember to write for yourself, not for a market and give yourself time to develop your own style, your own voice. It… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“It is strange to hear my words Read back to me. I don't think I wrote them To have them ever leave… — Stasia Ward Kehoe Copy Share Image
It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages. — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
“That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though… — Jamie Craig Copy Share Image
“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. If a writer can… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy United States Air Force -… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
Most authors writing books like 'He's Just Not That Into You' dream of doing what I was being asked to do. I… — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
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“Suppose each of us make up a list of, say, fifty or more books that we believe should be in the library.… — Harold Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Saskia’s bedroom is messy and cramped, but in an eccentric, smart way. Books are stacked all over the floor, but her bookshelf… — Greg Baxter Copy Share Image
I try to be aware of what I'm concerned about, aware of how I feel about myself in the world, aware of… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Every author dreams of the kind of attention that 'Beautiful Children' has received in the press. Obviously, it's a shock whenever it… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got… — Anne Holm Copy Share Image
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It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters. — John Updike Copy Share Image
John Steinbeck is one of the most under-discussed and under-written-about of all American writers. He is way up there and should stand… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
You must think about building a 'granth-mandir' in your village. Why is your village lacking such a 'granth-mandir'? Start with 50 books...100 books. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced… — Tana French Copy Share Image
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority. — Marie de France Copy Share Image
To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
There are some books that get huge numbers of positive reviews, but reading them satiates people. They say, 'I've read enough now'. — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
I'm a reader, so when I go to bookstores I need (stuff) that's going to help me. There a big emptiness there… — Nas Copy Share Image
“Across the bottom of the last page of many a book is written 'Explicit, Deo Gratias ('Finished, thank god')...Books are kept not… — Joseph Gies Copy Share Image
I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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As Jules Renard said, no matter how much care an author takes to write as few books as possible, there will be… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
