Grub Street could be a graveyard for ambition, a pit of…

Welcome to the graveyard of ambition

— David Nicholls

Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough…

— Wallace Stegner

“No doubts our generation is producing another form of grub street literature.. Welcome to the world of hack writers..”

— Himmilicious

I love the Grub Street Diet. I am particularly fascinated by what people eat; I think it says a lot about people.

— Claire Saffitz

I haven't hit the bestseller list, but I consider myself one of the luckiest writers in the world, and this is mainly because of…

— Christopher Castellani

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

— Charles Lamb

“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

— Christopher K. Krebs

The Rosary is the book of the blind.

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

— Kevin Ansbro

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

— Andrew Lang

My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

— Karen Thompson Walker

If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

— Lydia Lunch

If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

— Aesop Rock

I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer