I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Reading is the spark to imagination. Ignite yours and live forever free.” — Dan Sanders Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.' — Diane Mott Davidson Copy Share Image
“Books, after all, do not have the same impact whenever we read them.” — Donald Sassoon Copy Share Image
All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Sometimes my readers ask me what else they should read, and I recommend Sebald. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“I love books. I love that moment when I open one and sink into it. I can escape from the world, into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
It's a sort of philosophy you cook up for yourself. You probably write things the same as everybody else, but it's your… — Jim Capaldi Copy Share Image
“Is it crazy to say that I sometimes don't understand what I write but I write it anyway, because maybe someone, somewhere,… — Nema Al-Araby Copy Share Image
The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is… — Ismail Kadaré Copy Share Image
“She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
If I had to write down everything I've done in my entire life, I'll begin with writing all my sorrows in sand… — Chee Vai Tang Copy Share Image
In A Life In Books, author and graphic design visionary Warren Lehrer crafts a vivid kaleidoscopic odyssey that frames one man’s life… — Jessica Helfand Copy Share Image
Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with… — Dirk Wittenborn Copy Share Image
The other reason I didn't want to fictionalize it is because one of the main points of publishing a memoir in nonfiction… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
It's really important for kids to read right through childhood but I know sometimes it's hard to get them to read. The… — Israel Folau Copy Share Image
“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
What I like about organizing things that way is that each story gets nearly full reign over its own space, but all… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
When I was an adolescent in England, at school we had to read 'Death of a Salesman.' I remember feeling incredibly moved… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
This makes his writing very pleasing to read: João Gilberto Noll pays attention to detail, but only to certain details. And it's… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
