“I often buy print books only after I've read them in some digital form or other. It's my odd way of keeping… — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“Today I resolve to take writing seriously, to keep going and never stop, to learn everything I can and make it as… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
All the Enid Blyton books - they opened my eyes to a bunch of kids living a life that was so far… — Lesley Sharp Copy Share Image
I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It is, incidentally, a favour that e-books have done for the Good Bookshop: they have made books beautiful again. A few years… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You're reading as someone who wants… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
“Dear Reader, This book you hold is a treasure, of sorts, as is every book I have ever known. I have made… — Kelly Gardiner Copy Share Image
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I'm doing the best I can with the ravages of time on my body and I'm a work in progress. I can't… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
I think there's only one reason to write in any genre or to any particular age group: You are called to it.… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
“There are three shelves with about forty books on each shelf. As I look through them, I am hoping for something that… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow. — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Writing about why you write is a funny business, like scratching what doesn't itch. Impulses are mysterious, and explaining them must be… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
When I think about the books I've written, it probably takes 150,000-200,000 words to get a 50,000 page book. Highlighting something and… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing.… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“It was an epoch of her life, an hour never to be forgotten, this first coming into relation with a really noble… — Charlotte M. Vaile Copy Share Image
“Better to write than to dare live, even if living means merely to buy bananas in the sunlight, as long as the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Reading is like leaving the house... Yes, you can go your whole life without doing it, but you're not really experiencing all… — Casey Neistat Copy Share Image
My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
“Finding an Agent is not a problem. Finding a publisher is not a problem. Finding readers now that's a problem.” — Roy A Higgins Copy Share Image
“There are two motives for writing a book: one, that you may save what you know, the other, that you may share… — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“Literature is the equivalent of the climate scientist’s computer simulations: set up some new starting conditions, run the whole complicated process and… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I used to be very disciplined about only buying three books ahead of what I was reading, but my husband corrupted me,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
The best way to get children excited about reading is to read to them from the beginning of their lives. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I don't plan the books ahead of time. It's not like Harry Potter. I don't work in a straight line. I don't… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“...now when I'm writing it's already tomorrow and I'm afraid of getting to the end of yesterday. As long as I go… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
