Writing my memoir and recalling and recollecting has been wonderfully enriching. — Deepti Naval Copy Share Image
I read more books than you can imagine on all sorts of odd topics, which is something that I love. — Scott Hutchins Copy Share Image
“Nothing in my life ever happened that was as important to me as learning to read.” — Bobbie Louise Hawkins Copy Share Image
A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell! — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“You don't write what you know you write to find out what you don't know” — Patricia Hemphall Copy Share Image
“If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it.” — Katerina Stoykova Klemer Copy Share Image
At a certain point, I got used to writing on demand. I developed a habit of writing like I hired myself! I… — Jake Holmes Copy Share Image
I'm generalizing wildly, but academic books find safety in explanations that reduce the chaos of social life. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity. — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new… — Luisa Valenzuela Copy Share Image
Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love it, I hate it, it's ecstasy when I'm writing well, it's despair when I'm not. I wouldn't wish this life… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
“The banal advice of writ in teachers is "write what you know," but the truth is, you don't know a place until… — Phyllis Rose Copy Share Image
“I wanted to hide away and write. I wanted to meet characters who would climb up my pen. I wanted to create… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Perhaps writing a story or a novel was not something that should be done for money, or to win praise, but for… — Vanessa Wu Copy Share Image
I mean, we have to read books or we'll make mistakes. If we read stories of how other people lived, we can… — Rachel DeWoskin Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of Hugh Kenner, Richard Ellman, Lionel Trilling and Frank Kermode. All these people have taught me how to read… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
