Unfortunately, neither of my grandfathers were alive by the time I decided I wanted to write a book. I wish I had… — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
My parents read me some typical children's books: 'Green Eggs and Ham,' 'The Little Engine That Could,' 'Peter Rabbit.' But I quickly… — James Holzhauer Copy Share Image
But most weeks I've gone through 12 books, maybe even 15 some weeks, depending on the length. So I go through my… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be wonderful if every home had good books instead of knick-knacks and plastic flowers on the bookshelves? And wouldn't it… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish any kind of… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
Journey of the Universe is eloquent, accessible, and powerful, and conveys a sense of wonder ranging from the cosmos to the microcosm--in… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
“Kathleen Norris, on the publication of her 78th book. 'All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
If you are a good writer you use your life experience to do something different than someone who is 20-years-old can do.… — El-P Copy Share Image
I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“If you are a “now-person”, you reduce the time rate during which your success story is to be published; if you delay… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached,… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“She loved the smell of books. She loved everything about books. It was her escape. She traveled all over the world with… — Soroosh Shahrivar Copy Share Image
“Ill love you with every little bit of everything that has ever consumed me and I will forever love you and forever… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not… — Gloria Anzaldua Copy Share Image
“The skill, the art of literacy is a gift. To read is to watch in your mind as a single word explodes… — Stephen Cosgrove Copy Share Image
I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it,… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“His failure hurt too badly for that. It was a bad equation. Best erase it and try a new one. If adults… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Don't just tell me a mystery; give me a world. Suzanne Myers delivers a hurricane-ravaged island shimmering with atmosphere and dense with… — Judy Blundell Copy Share Image
The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“It is often much harder to get rid of books than to acquire them. They stick to us in that pact of… — Carlos María Domínguez Copy Share Image
Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“In 1891 the Brazilian Minister of Finance decreed the abolition of history; he ordered the destruction of every document which dealt in… — Manu Herbstein Copy Share Image
It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book...from the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I got one of the five golden tickets to be a writer, and I take that seriously. I don't love my own… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening,… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
A novel requires a certain kind of world building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
reading is not a passive act. It's a creative act. It's a relationship between the writer and a person the writer will… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all — what do they want, a crowd looking over their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Historically, dust jackets are a new concern for authors; you don't see them much before the 1920s. And dust jacket is a… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
“Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for… — John Steinbeck from the Fall 1975 issue of The Paris Review Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of the portrayals of, in particular, younger minority ethnic characters on television, a lot of their dialogue,… — Corey Reynolds Copy Share Image
When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to… — Arthur Curley Copy Share Image
“Personally, I felt pretty safe. Librarians are like priests. You can tell them you want information on just about any subject and… — Eileen Cook Copy Share Image
