Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Mr. Gradgrind greatly tormented his mind about what the people read in this library:” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to decide whether it's worth turning the page, or whether it's time to close the book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is no literature anymore, there are just single books that arrive in bookstores, just as letters, newspapers, advertising pamphlets arrive in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In books I find the dead as if they were alive; in books I foresee things to come; in books warlike affairs… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was given a pen not to write anything but just to make me feel how it is to hold something full… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I understand the fear that by losing contact with books on the printed page, we're somehow surrendering some aspect of our humanity,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to give any book an inspectional reading without being alert, without having all of one's faculties awake and working.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that most people go to bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow the books sit there,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To leave a novel unfinished, is to leave the characters stranded. They become helpless abiding in their own fear, pain, conflict, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To write is to pour one’s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one’s hand struggles… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I often wonder, What do people do with all the extra time they save by writing K . — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When I open a book, I enter a world that no one can take me away from.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is a book, you can't start a new chapter if you keep rereading the last. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every fiction writer writes around the thing they will never say. Thats what fiction writers do — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And a tear rolled down her cheek, as she said goodbye; because she's walking away, and she's never looking back — Anonymous Copy Share
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t… — Anonymous Copy Share
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share
Put on my J's and dance the whole night away Im naughty by nature like Im hip-hop hooray With my hands in the sky,… — Anonymous Copy Share
Me.. I have been through a lot, but I still manage to have a smile on my face. Im not worried about the past… — Anonymous Copy Share
Distance is a test of love. many will fail for those who can't withstand it, but for those who can, theres only one answer… — Anonymous Copy Share
The only person I've ever purposely caused pain here is myself...By simply sharing, caring too much. — Anonymous Copy Share
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share
