“She was home, among the mayor's books of every color and description, with their silver and gold lettering. She could smell the… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was about thirteen but didn't start a book until 2007. I spent four years writing a sci-fi… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct. — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I purposely adopted a style in my storytelling wherein I don't have to explain everything or why the story is moving in… — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“-Books were once cherished belongings of people, that they weren't always just neglected and collecting dust.” — Barbara Hodgson Copy Share Image
A novel is a way to rethink and rewrite and re-envision the past, and also a way to speak to people who… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
A hidden nerve is what every writer is ultimately about. It's what all writers wish to uncover when writing about themselves in… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
D.H. Lawrence, I think, defined the difference between writing an article and writing a novel very well. He said, in writing a… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I want to engage the reader. I'm an emotional writer, in the sense that I would be happy if you re-read a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“What she discovered was mostly shelves of battered paperbacks, not exactly the insulation she’d had in mind, and when the dynamite bundle… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have been ineluctably drawn to libraries ever since I entered that sanctum sanctorum. It was a place of quietude. In a… — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." — Mark Twain Beh-Rang… — Samad Beh-Rang Copy Share Image
For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“We tend to believe that if we could just change our workplace, get married, finish writing that novel, buy a new car… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it. — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
“The library committee had an epic secret meeting about the ethics of literary eugenics which ended in a furious deadlock.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Imagination is the parallel universe of a writer. If he is not responding to you in this world, he is probably responding… — Heenashree Khandelwal Copy Share Image
Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about… — William Joyce Copy Share Image
Someone had asked me who I thought was better, John Cena or Rock. I said Rock needs a teleprompter. Rock needs a… — Randy Orton Copy Share Image
“The simple act of sitting here sipping this cappuccino is its own testament to my commitment to living the writer’s life. Which… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
I am a writer (and one day I'll be an author). For a long time I was a bookseller (who wrote) or… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is… — Zara Larsson Copy Share Image
Writing a book is the most terrifying thing that I've ever done. It's so much harder than writing for television because it… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
If you are anything like me --- Clever, fond of goat cheese, and devilishly handsome --- then you have undoubtedly read many… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“(in which, along with Montaigne, we raise the question of whether a book you have read and completely forgotten, and which you… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside--and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to have a mother who took me to the library - the public library - twice a week,… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
It's much more difficult to make an unbound book than a bound book, because the factories aren't set up to make an… — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I love telling 'first' stories - first loves, first college experience, first kiss, all of those kinds of things. — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can't quite keep… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
If I have experienced something in my life, it's probably going to be written about, and I don't particularly care if the… — Finneas Copy Share Image
“When she opened the door, the happy ringing of the silver bell above her head and the smell of old books welcomed… — Angela C. Blackmoore Copy Share Image
