“Authors are the curators of experience. They filter the world's noise, and out of that noise they make the purest signal they… — Peter Mendelsund Copy Share Image
I realised that reading was the key that opened the door to secret lands, strange places and the worlds behind other people's… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“Cut the chatter!' interrupted Melnick, fiercely. 'Don't you know librarians can't stand noise? For them, noise is like waving a red rag… — Dmitry Glukhovsky Copy Share Image
Writer advice... Write. Finish things. Go for walks. Read a lot & outside your comfort zone. Stay interested. Daydream. Write. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Of all those books you've read? There's got to be something, somewhere in them, to help us laugh at a situation like… — Carol Plum-Ucci Copy Share Image
Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know… — John Guare Copy Share Image
My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
In TheColorful Apocalypse, Greg Bottoms explores the frontier between inspiration and psychosis with the expressive power, the passionate fervor, and the faithfully… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
“Writing is difficult. You do it all alone without encouragement and without any certainty that you'll ever be published or paid or… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“My favorite thing in the world to do is read a book. I read Heidi, which I love, then I read another… — Mindy Warshaw Skolsky Copy Share Image
I have lots of notebooks around, because one great advantage of writing by hand-in addition to how much it slows you down-is… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Each page in a book will discover other pages and other books. Thus books will seep out of their bindings and weave… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Our day-to-day lives are pretty chaotic. So in terms of the writing part, you have to get pretty disciplined about finding quiet… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I think some people think that writers read and read and read, get the information, and then write. That's not how it… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
That earns him a smack with my book bag. "Ow." He clutches his arm. "What do you have in there? Books?" A… — Julie Anne Peters Copy Share Image
[Writing a joke] there is no team of writers. It's just you in an office, staring at yourself in the mirror. — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
When a newspaper columnist wants to write about a novel, the rule is that you're supposed to have a 'hook,' an excuse,… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I never admit to wishing I'd written something by another author, but if my name mysteriously appeared on the title page of… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
“I walked to the bookcase and examined the storybooks inside. As a girl, I had dreamed of having stacks of books at… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Libraries are very special spaces, spaces where people come together in separate but joint pursuits of knowledge, of learning. Libraries are the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
If you were to write a diary and you held things back, when you went back to look at it when you… — Ellie Rowsell Copy Share Image
“Well, so you don't get too cocky, I myself often complete the TV Guide crossword puzzle." He puffed out his chest. "In… — Shelly Laurenston Copy Share Image
“Reading is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. Its chief purpose is to help towards filling in… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“But it takes more than a few unpronounceable names, moldy tomes, and tentacles to successfully write a story in the Lovecraftian mode.” — Ross E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“Maybe I can learn to live in a way that makes it worth writing about, and maybe I can actually become something… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
If writing really is empathy, then understanding your place in society might actually help you achieve it. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
My mum always said I devoured 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe' at the tender age of four, but frankly, I… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
With my writing, I try to do stuff I have not done before. Each time I sit down, I want to have… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“An important aspect of writing unmentioned by Burton was ‘priority'; what to tell first. That always seemed one of the basic problems.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Telling someone to be confident in the abstract is not going to make it easier for the unconfident writer to actually get… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“The buying of second-hand books was, for Donna, somewhat akin to pet rescue. Had this volume been a dog, it might have… — Dan Micklethwaite Copy Share Image
[Nabokov's] language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don't think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything. — Tomie dePaola Copy Share Image
“She hated to hear the word "escape" used about fiction. She might have argued, not just playfully, that it was real life… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
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