“If I had kept a journal, I could go back through it and check up on what memory reports plausibly but not… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
“When asked out, I am hesitant, my glance straying to the beeefy, 400-page mystery thriller lounging seductively on the nightstand next to… — Ava Zavora Copy Share Image
“...Maybe this was another reason why people read: not so that they would feel less lonely, but so that other people would… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
I think the number of books published by Mr. Disney has nothing to do with whether or not he is bringing literature… — Frances Clarke Sayers Copy Share Image
“The standard heroes and heroines of novels, are personages in whom I could never, from childhood upwards, take an interest, believe to… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Despite the natural belittling of one's self, the doubts, the insecurities, we have to wake up to the realisation that we all… — Yossi Ghinsberg Copy Share Image
“Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather,… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms,… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“Reading. Well Reading is...It´s really much more than that. A page of print is like a secret passage that leads you to… — Peggy Christian Copy Share Image
I was given the opportunity to write the kind of book that I wanted to write, rather than one that catalogues where… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
I stay away from the writing part because I think that if it sticks, it sticks. You just know it. The stuff… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
Writing itself is a dream. There are days of self doubt and deadlines and wondering how you're going to pay the bills… — Graham Brown Copy Share Image
It is true that it is usually for their books that novelists reserve their most considered and ordered thoughts, but the fact… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
The label YA actually means nothing except that the protagonists, or some of them, are young. Publishers like it because it is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Brighter Than a Thousand Suns' by Robert Jungk and 'Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!' by Richard Feynman were both books my father… — Baiju Bhatt Copy Share Image
In terms of style, I think the memoirist should have a novelist's skill and all the elements of a novelist's toolbox. When… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
Writing is still a bit of a miracle - the whole process: I see the world, filter the world, write down abstract… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
No one really knows the value of book tours. Whether or not they're good ideas, or if they improve book sales. I… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“They were probably reading on their tablets,” said Nina loyally. She loved her e-reader, too. “Yes, I know,” said the man. “But… — Jenny Colgan Copy Share Image
I got a damn good mind to write a book about all the feelings that I have inside about all these things… — Ernest Borgnine Copy Share Image
We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear,… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Every writer, by the way he uses the language, reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacities, his bias…Avoid the elaborate,… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
I am asked to submit a 2-3 page synopsis to my publisher ahead of time, so by the time I begin writing,… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
Writers sometimes write things for me and I like to see what they write because I want to see what their take… — Isaiah Mustafa Copy Share Image
“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood.… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
I just write all the time. In my whole life I've never had what I've heard people talk about writer's block. I've… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
“The best thing about being a writer is the ability to live vicariously through your own imagination, with no boundaries as to… — Dawn Goodwin Copy Share Image
Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
My advice to anyone with writerly ambitions and a demanding day job is to set aside a little piece of time, even… — Camille Perri Copy Share Image
“What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write … so long as we write continually as well… — Patricia Goodson Copy Share Image
“At the start, we tried to be calm and objective, but that soon fell away, and the purpose of the speakers was… — Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows Copy Share Image
Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Some of the stories in Dogwalker were written as long as four years ago, but I wouldn't say I've been working on… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
Indeed, being a beginner is very difficult right now. Book publishers are in a crisis, sales are dwindling, and publishing houses are… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
