I think books are just a great ticket to get you outside of yourself. You can not be you for a second… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
“Admire the habits and accomplishments of other authors, but not to the extend it depresses or distracts you from accomplishing your own… — Sarah Gerdes Copy Share Image
Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages… — Frank Oz Copy Share Image
“I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“there is the smell, too, of course -- the reassuring smell of paper, new paper, soft old paper, recalling each person to… — Deborah Meyler Copy Share Image
And for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I was pretty obsessed with 'The Princess and the Pea.' I'm still not sure why. Something about… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
The reason I never wrote a novel is that I don't have what it takes to write characters, so they would all… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I didn't do anything as active as deciding that I wanted to be a writer. For one thing, I didn't feel like… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
In her excellent, entirely readable Richard Wright, Hazel Rowley accomplishes what [previous biographer] Michel Fabre would have liked to do with once-guarded… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
“For a girl who often felt like she lived more in the cozy world of books than in the unforgiving world of… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“I no longer believe I can save people. I've tried, and I've failed, and while I'm sure there are people out there… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I have trouble with some books because I'm so much in agreement with them I'd rather just sit in the grass myself. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“A writer may not know the way at first; but if he endeavors to complete his task, he carves a path with… — Susan J. McIntire Copy Share Image
When I write, I tend to tap into this human wondering vibe that could come off negative, but it's really not. — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Books have literally powered most of my life. Whether as a stress relief when doing hard things or as vacation fodder, they… — Harper Reed Copy Share Image
Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?" asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“Sixteen pages! Full sixteen pages! If you don't want to read, use it to make paper bags.Sell the paper pabs and earn… — Aziz Nesin Copy Share Image
Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last for only as long as… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
Like most new writers, I could only hope that one day one publisher might agree to publish one of my books; I… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Libraries serve the information needs of all of the people in the community — not just the loudest, not just the most… — Judith Krug Copy Share Image
Because I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions. — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it. — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
I think writing is really a process of communication. . . . It's the sense of being in contact with people who… — Sherley Anne Williams Copy Share Image
Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I don't think there is ever objective biography. Our vision of our subject is always shaped by who we are. So I… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books? — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
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