“I travel to know the life of great souls in the pages of a book.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
“Books are enchanted. Books help me travel. Books help me breathe.” — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
“children were still young of inventing and telling orally, sometimes of writing down, ‘children’s stories’ for their private amusement… The Hobbit was… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“She’s been reading too much, he thought -had drifted across that line that separated what you might find in a book from… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“A person that doesn't read and doesn't have any ethics complaining about a writer feels like a Chihuahua barking at a Rottweiler.” — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
Ive always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“he job and Career Information Services Committee of the Adult Lifelong Learning Section of the Public Library Division of the American Library… — Public Library Association Copy Share Image
I don't think that children, if left to themselves, feel that there is an author behind a book, a somebody who wrote… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“A man who possesses the art of correct reading will … instinctively and immediately perceive everything which in his opinion is worth… — HITLER Copy Share Image
“Remember this, if you have written a couple dozen short stories and sold them to national markets, the chances are you know… — William Campbell Gault Copy Share Image
Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
