I feel lucky that I read so many books as a kid because I know that no matter how much I appreciate… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
Journaling has become one of the most gratifying and fulfilling practices of my life. Not only do I derive the daily benefits… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
Never before have I written so long a letter. I'm afraid it is much too long to take your precious time. I… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
In the shower, with the hot water coming down, you've left the real world behind, and very frequently things open up for… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Life is just like a book. Only after you've read it do you know how it ends. It is when we are… — Carolina Maria de Jesus Copy Share Image
Empire of Deception is a sure thing--a book guaranteed to entertain and make you rich (in knowledge, that is). Dean Jobb has… — Jonathan Eig Copy Share Image
For every Steven King, there are a dozen guys like me who make a good living. For every David Brin, there are… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
“A big part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The London 'Academy' has seen fit recently to scoff at the critics who have been exercising themselves ove rthe so-called art of… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
The book that made me decide to go into Russian literature was 'Anna Karenina,' which I first read in high school. The… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The act of writing surprises me all the time. A miraculous thing happens when you have an idea and you want to… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
Almost every morning I write in my journal. I've been keeping it for a long time - I've filled more than 50… — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
“Everyone says that reading is a good thing, but Ava had started to wonder. People look at you with suspicion if they… — Stephanie Powell Watts Copy Share Image
I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Well, it does educate us about life. I wouldn’t be the person I am, I wouldn’t understand what I understand, were it… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Writing … is an addiction, an illusory release, a presumptuous taming of reality, a way of expressing lightly the unbearable. That we… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college.… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
I do a lot of book signings and conventions every year, and I meet a great many readers who are struggling... they're… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
“Publishing a book is like planting a vegetable seed. The first day your book is out there is the same as seeing… — Kevin Ortegel Copy Share Image
For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“It was a common complaint amongst the Arts students that their library was in dire need of refurbishment. To call the old… — Erin Lawless Copy Share Image
“Laura read a lot. She lived alone in a tiny bedsit and her television was so small and snowy she didn"t watch… — Katie Fforde Copy Share Image
But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
One of my rigid goals is to keep each book under 300 pages because I think so much nonfiction is literally weighty… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
No matter what I write or speak about, it always has some connection to how our spiritual understanding impacts the world we… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Producing works of art doesn't often count as appropriate intellectual work in an arts department: yet the equivalent in a science department,… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s. When it comes to actually pulling this off, the writer… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Librarians who are arguing and lobbying for clever ebook lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending library as warehouse… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“When I read the actual story-how Gatsby loves Daisy so much but can't ever be with her no matter how hard he… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I think people need to remember that a book isn't done after a few rewrites and a publisher isn't going to buy… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“We are all misfits, poseurs, and clowns. We are heartbroken and lonely, failures in life, criminals and frauds. Most of our successes… — Don Borchert Copy Share Image
“You get no writing done at all if you sit at a table with a view. You'd spent the whole time watching… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
