Tuesdays and Thursdays, I didn't do any press, I didn't do any meetings, I just wrote all day, 'cause I'd meet, via… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
“None of the things I have mentioned can make a foolish man wise or a bad book good. But when they are… — John Russell Copy Share Image
Supporting a family and financial necessity aside, what I want is to read it and just have that feeling in your chest… — Shannyn Sossamon Copy Share Image
Safe from the Neighbors is a novel of unusual richness and depth, one that's as wise about the small shocks within a… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“Autobiographies are always written as if the author had it all mapped out with perfect foresight, ignoring the risks and uncertainties at… — Raghuram G. Rajan Copy Share Image
I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create fabric in the world that often appears… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Genuine bravery for a writer... It is about calmly speaking the truth when everyone else is silenced, when the truth cannot be… — Murong Xuecun Copy Share Image
“Why do you think I'm reading this? But you know—though maybe you have different standards for what constitutes 'interesting' than I do—there's… — Natsuhiko Kyogoku Copy Share Image
Rosanne Daryl Thomas's tale of her enchantment by bees is a delight to read. It also contains close observations of the natural… — Janet Lembke Copy Share Image
William Goldman's Marathon Man was a novel that taught me about suspense. I was maybe 16 years old when I read it… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“It is a long journey, not just as a writer, but as a human being. Take nothing and no one for granted,… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
“There are books that I own that somehow even without reading them they mean something to me. So I think people have… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My adrenaline started pumping anytime I was within a hundred yards of a bookshop. I loved books nearly as much as I… — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book,… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“The book looked doomed, assailed on all sides by those who'd see it superseded by the synthetic-new and those who didn't give… — Charlie Hill Copy Share Image
“If you're writing primarily for one person besides yourself, I'd advise you pay very close attention to that person's opinion (I know… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I am a reader, a flashlight-under-the-covers, carries-a-book-everywhere-I-go, don't-look-at-my-Amazon-bill reader. I choose purswes based on whether I can cram a paperback into them,… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
“Books are our windows on the world. They permit us to safely experience other lives and ways of thinking and feeling. Books… — Harry Mazer Copy Share Image
I love books the way I love nature. ... I can imagine now that a time will come, that it is almost… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make… — Alain de Botton 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
