For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it. — David Crosby Copy Share Image
This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
No reader wants to sit through the same scene four times in a row, unless they're radically different. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“Which is why books are such a lifeline. Stepping into the pages of someone else’s story means joining them in their normal… — Joanna Davidson Politano Copy Share Image
“I leafed through the phrase book. If a Martian read it, the Martian would probably decide to avoid Hungary.” — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
A book is a silent teacher, and a precious and indispensable companion in life. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Books—the closeness of them, their contact, their smell, and their contents—constitute the safest refuge against this world of horror. They are the… — Tahir Djaout The Last summer of Reason Copy Share Image
“...You are not just going to vanish like this, Karou. This isn't some goddamn Narnia book.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Debut novels are difficult because nobody knows you... they just don't find a huge audience, because that's how the market works. — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Success is walking out of here with the title, and anything less is not good enough in my book. — Pete Sampras Copy Share Image
I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
“There’s strength in observing one’s miniaturization. That you are insignificant and prone to, and God knows, dumb about a lot. Because doesn’t… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
I'm terribly particular about what I read: lush writing, secondary world or seriously far-out science fiction, strong worldbuilding, dynamic characters. I need… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
