“Mirrors only show us what we are. Books show us what we can be.” — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
“Americans need to develop a “habit of mind” that includes reading books.” — David Souter Copy Share Image
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Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
I've always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
I almost never write because I want something from my audience. Almost everything I've ever written, I've written because I feel like… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense… — Garance Dore Copy Share Image
“Unable to explore setting, conflict, characters or themes in their fiction, the mainstreamers wrote more and more eloquently about nothing at all.” — Dave Wolverton Copy Share Image
“With exceptions so rare that it is hard to remember one, textbooks are to books as powdered food supplements are to a… — Gregory Millman Copy Share Image
“She's the first person to smile at me today. The first to make me feel wanted. Understood. I blink back tears. It's… — Lisa Fipps Copy Share Image
'Top Of The Lake' is a great story with a beginning, and a middle and an end, about darkness - it's like… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
“In my twenties if even a tenth reading of Mallarmé failed to yield up its treasures, the fault was mine, not his.… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story.… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
“So the point of my keeping a notebook has never been, nor is it now, to have an accurate factual record of… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Writing for adults and writing for young people is really not that different. As a reporter, I have always tried to write… — Serge Schmemann Copy Share Image
Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing,… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
“Writing in Library Journal, Ben Vershbow of the Institute for the Future of Book envisioned a digital ecology in which "parts of… — Jeff Jarvis Copy Share Image
“Christie loved books; and the attic next her own was full of them. To this store she found her way by a… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
