When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I have served many long and lonely years aboard ship in war zones, and the only thing that kept me sane during… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
“I don’t like writers whose writing is so obvious that I can predict what he’ll write while I’m still taking in his… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
When I was probably about 10 or 11, and I found it was simply something I could do. When you're at school… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“She read a great deal - there was really nothing for her to do when I was gone but read and sew… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“desire to know more. I hope my novel accomplishes this, and I highly recommend the following books that I found very useful:… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away,… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
I believe the better I can write on my own, the better I can be of service in a co-write. The big… — Charlie Worsham Copy Share Image
Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We can spend Rs 5,000 for a meal at the Taj and thousands on all kinds of shopping, but we're always stingy… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
“Then Ruskin came. I showed him our small library. He looked at it with disapproving eyes. “ Each book ”, he said… — Jane Ellen Harrison Copy Share Image
I do try to deliver a solid first draft, meaning it's my tenth or twentieth draft and then I call it 'first'… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
It was amazing to me then, and still is, that so many people who wander into bookshops don't really know what they're… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“I'm afraid to write. It's so dangerous. Anyone who's tried, knows. The danger of stirring up hidden things - and the world… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“Then he picks up the first book and holds it so Peter can read the title. I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“published in 1991 led to more than 1,800 further titles, with more than 250 million copies in print, translations in more than… — John Wiley and Sons Copy Share Image
If you write, write about what you do and who you are, and you can't be wrong. Don't lie about anything. You… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them, let… — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
“Knowing people can mean so many things. It's like books: there are plenty of gradations between the books one has read and… — Cécile David-Weill Copy Share Image
Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. Launch it into… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Having something worth telling and a passion to tell it are what make you a good writer. I can't tell you how… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
“The room was lit with small reading lamps and there were books everywhere: piled on the coffee table, under the coffee table,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Books are the ultimate ride-or-die companions. They’re always there, never cancel plans, and don’t care if you’re in your pajamas. They offer… — Life is Positive Copy Share Image
I'm an avid reader myself, and what any one reader accesses at any one time is very powerful and personal to them.… — Darren Boyd Copy Share Image
“Trying to read slowly when you haven't had time to read is like holding back hunger. It's like having a meal in… — Laura Hendrie Copy Share Image
Librarians are serious people, seldomgiven to idle jocularity. The reason for this, I believe, is because we are overwhelmed by the enormous… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
When you spend time with your friends, what do you talk about? Those things which made an impression on you that day,… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share Image
