“There is no success of a nation that does not devote its literature to serve its affair. Does the awaited "reformation era"… — Ali Al-Tantawi Copy Share Image
As for the healing, that comes from the writing, from living and writing. That's my catharsis. That's why I never regret sharing… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementia sufferer leads to a peculiar kind… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
“She carried a notebook with her everywhere and brimmed with ideas. She often woke in the night and switched on the light… — Josephine Moon Copy Share Image
“There is something soothing about the act of writing, a drug that lures you into another world, but then forgets to stop,… — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
What I tend to do is I try and get as much writing done... I get as much writing done at home… — John O'Keefe Copy Share Image
“You have seven writers in your basement?” Donald nods, signing, “They like it here. There’s a poet, a couple of novelists, an… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Hi," Kami said to Dorothy, the head librarian…"Can you tell me where I could find the books on Satanism?" Twenty minutes later,… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
“I dare say, my remark came from the professional feeling of there being nothing like leather. [Mr. Hale--about books; reminding me of… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“Don Raimondo tells me what he can’t tell them. “The emptiness on the surface of a wall left by a sold bookshelf… — Erri DeLuca Copy Share Image
Clark Gregg and I are around the same age. He has been an actor and is a writer. But with a first-time… — Sam Rockwell Copy Share Image
When I was a young boy, I loved spending hours in St. Franics Xavier's school library at Saint Louis University. The feel… — William Lacy Clay, Jr Copy Share Image
It was always in the back of my mind while we were working on the first year of 'Rookie' that we'd do… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
Unlike a typical professional, I can't quit my job to become a full-time author; I don't have that luxury. For me, writing… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS) — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so… — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
Patrick Rothfuss gives us a fabulous debut, standing firmly on the main stage of the fantasy genre and needing no warm-up act.… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
“We read a lot of books. Children's books mostly, because they're always much more truthful than adult books. And much more entertaining,"… — Polly Horvath Copy Share Image
“In the end he read everything that came his way, and he did not have a favorite author but rather many who… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
“Writers and learners will write better and learn more if they understand the "why" of what they are studying.” — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I yearn for intellectual sustenance on vacation but want, of course, to avoid tedium or boredom. I want to read something that… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged… — Nancy Meyers Copy Share Image
It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The only pleasure in redecorating or moving house comes from stumbling across books that I'd almost forgotten I owned. — John Burnside Copy Share Image
“All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Each book holds an experience and an adventure." [ Letters of Note ; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]” — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The whole idea of spellbinding, of being an entertainer, being the center of the stage, making up words - that let me… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They're Caesar's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
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