Writing is very much perceived as something distinct from performance. I don't see it like that. — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
“Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“In this huge old occidental culture our teaching elders are books. Books are our grandparents!” — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Books get older as well; their body also wears out, but unlike us, their brain remains forever young! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Чтение-вот лучшее учение!(Reading is the best doctrine!)” — Александр Сергеевич Пушкин Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin Copy Share Image
“Books always had such a wonderful smell. Everywhere in the world. There was always something familiar about that. Something constant. I took… — Sarah Kleck Copy Share Image
Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters. — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Angle of Repose is one of my favorite books. I fell in love with it in college. When I submitted The Night… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
“A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
“It’s just so typical. I’ve had writer’s block for days now− I literally couldn’t write a coherent sentence− then about a minute… — Emily Harper Copy Share Image
I don't read good books anymore, it seems; I just buy them and put them on the shelf and every now and… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“...she talked in one of her memoirs of ignoring her little brother when she was supposed to be looking after him: "I… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“love to read, but whenever I pick up a novel that blows me away, I think, There’s no way I have something… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
