One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure… — Amy Sherman-Palladino Copy Share Image
There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
There is nothing for it but for all of us to invent our own ideal libraries of classics. I would say that… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Part of the job of a children's author is to write books that will be remembered, definitely, but if I might go… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh;… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceeding day.… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“But the slice-of-life novel is really not so much a world apart as an interlude - like the conference or the film… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
“I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“To me, the urge to be published is equivalent to the first quarter of the hero's journey, where normal life seems not… — Rob Parnell Copy Share Image
“Built-in shelves line my bedroom, adjacent to my Japanese platform bed, purchased for its capacious rim, the better to hold those books… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers,… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
When you talk to people about the books that have meant a lot to them, it's usually books they read when they… — Jesse Sheidlower Copy Share Image
“I think long and carefully about what novels ought to do. They should clarify the roles that have become obscured; they ought… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I am a book also, words and thoughts and stories held together by flesh. We open and close ourselves to the world.… — Ari Berk Copy Share Image
“I was downstairs, reading." " Now?" I strained to see her face. She was smiling, it appeared. "Yes, now," she said. "It's… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that,… — Phil Mickelson Copy Share Image
I'm not particularly inventive. If you left me in а room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn't be able… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew'… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I've been waiting a long time to be a children's book author. I've spent decades getting good enough to write for children.… — Jewell Parker Rhodes Copy Share Image
“A writer is like a tuning fork: We respond when we’re struck by something. The thing is to pay attention, to be… — Roxana Robinson Copy Share Image
“If you want to write you need to be able to take risks – in your life and in your writing. If… — Roselle Angwin Copy Share Image
Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story… — Afua Cooper Copy Share Image
I do not enjoy the promotional side of being a writer, to be blunt about it. Even with the little amount that… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and… — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
I believe that writer's block is a symptom. It's not a disease, it's the symptom of a disease. So what I try… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“My problem as a writer is that—whenever I meet someone for the first time—I immediately invent for them a personality and background… — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Influential books are often a disappointment, if they're properly influential, because influence cannot guarantee the quality of the imitators, and your appetite… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold,… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“I WANT EVERYONE to understand that no book and no doctor is a substitute for one’s own sensitive contemplation and careful observations.… — Sandra Joseph Copy Share Image
“Bringing the workbook to publication also meant an ending. An ending of many days and hours of interaction with Tyrone. I knew… — Paula Heller Garland Copy Share Image
I was a reader. I loved reading. Reading things gave me pleasure. I was very good at most subjects in school, not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I read that John Hughes script for 'Mr. Mom,' and I thought, 'This guy is a funny writer.' I went: 'You ought… — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
“She’d entered a city made entirely of leather and paper. Celaena put a hand against her heart. Escape routes be damned. “I’ve… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
![“I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it." [ Patrick Ness slams library cuts ( The Guardian , 23 June 2011)]” quote by Patrick Ness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/016/patrick-ness-449_books_i-was-a-hugely-unchaperoned-reader-and-i_1112530.jpg)
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