“More than a building that houses books and data, the library has always been a window to a larger world--a place where… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Both reading and writing are experiences--lifelong-- in the course of which we who encounter words used in certain ways are persuaded by… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“All writers are, somewhere or other, mad. Not les grands fous, like Rimbaud, but mad, yes, mad. Because we do not believe… — Patricia Duncker Copy Share Image
Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck… — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
“No other library anywhere, for example, has a whole gallery of unwritten books - books that would have been written if the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When people ask what kind of nonfiction I write, I say 'all kinds,' but really I mean I don’t write any kind… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good.… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“It was a bookstore, and he felt at home in bookstores, and he hadn’t had that feeling much lately. He was going… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The power of reading a great book is that you start thinking like the author. For those magical moments while you are… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
“A lot of aspiring writers are actually very talented and just have to continue polishing their craft till opportunity knocks. All writers… — Myne Whitman Copy Share Image
“We write to heighten our own awareness of life. We write to lure and enchant and console others. We write to serenade… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Books are like people. Some look deceptively attractive from a distance, some deceptively unappealing; some are easy company, some demand hard work… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
“The main thing is to WRITE. Some days it might be 2000 words. Some days you might tinker with two sentences until… — L.K. Madigan Copy Share Image
All of these declarations of what writing ought to be, which I had myself-though, thank God I had never committed them to… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“The books are to remind us what asses and fool we are. They're Caeser's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing.… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Now, many public libraries want to lend e-books, not simply to patrons who come in to download, but to anybody with a… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I try to keep a steady pace with my writing. I have found that super-productive days are usually followed by two and… — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady. To be strange and familiar all… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
McEwan's Atonement…truly dazzles, proving to be as much about the art and morality of writing as it is about the past…. The… — Noah Richler Copy Share Image
“You must know that feeling when it's raining outside and the heating's on and you lose yourself, utterly, in a book. You… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
The writer's advantage, in some respects, over those whose expression lies in other fields, is in the privilege of a double -… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
If you're going to be a writer, you're going to write because you have to. It's not like other arts and not… — Ian Sansom Copy Share Image
There's always been in my life that tension between living and writing. For me, because I'm so physically exuberant, it was extra… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
“When my first draft of a novel is done, I put it away, warts and all, to mellow. Some period of time… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My mother used to read me from Bank Street schools, that book, you know, Bank Street school had these early reader books.… — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
“To make matters worse, some of the books had actually become migratory. In the nineteenth century Brakebills had appointed a librarian with… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The wildest ride in modern crime novel exoticum. A novel so steeped in milieu that it feels as if you've blasted to… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
“Did the men steal the papers?" Reynie asked, fearing her response. No, because they are fools," Sophie said bitterly. "They demanded to… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
Every time when it comes to writing a book, I think, "I'm the last person in the world that should be doing… — David Toop Copy Share Image
“Only Homo sapiens can discuss things that are not tangible, such as fantasies, legends, myths, deities, and religions. The ability to talk… — Read trepreneur Copy Share Image
“In my white room, against my white walls, on my glistening white bookshelves, book spines provide the only color. The books are… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
