Journaling has become one of the most gratifying and fulfilling practices of my life. Not only do I derive the daily benefits… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
Never before have I written so long a letter. I'm afraid it is much too long to take your precious time. I… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s. When it comes to actually pulling this off, the writer… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Librarians who are arguing and lobbying for clever ebook lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending library as warehouse… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“Producing works of art doesn't often count as appropriate intellectual work in an arts department: yet the equivalent in a science department,… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
One of my rigid goals is to keep each book under 300 pages because I think so much nonfiction is literally weighty… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
No matter what I write or speak about, it always has some connection to how our spiritual understanding impacts the world we… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“They are the lost books,” he turned his head, grasping his cane and raising it aloft, as if speaking more to the… — Darius Jones Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he wrote equations, or musical notation, sometimes he wrote in Latin; he refused to tell her what it was about. "Nothing,"… — Gwendolen Gross Copy Share Image
I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
“Do not insult a writer by asking him questions related to books written by someone else. If you are not reading the… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“You get no writing done at all if you sit at a table with a view. You'd spent the whole time watching… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I think people need to remember that a book isn't done after a few rewrites and a publisher isn't going to buy… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“When I read the actual story-how Gatsby loves Daisy so much but can't ever be with her no matter how hard he… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“We are all misfits, poseurs, and clowns. We are heartbroken and lonely, failures in life, criminals and frauds. Most of our successes… — Don Borchert Copy Share Image
I do a lot of book signings and conventions every year, and I meet a great many readers who are struggling... they're… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Well, it does educate us about life. I wouldn’t be the person I am, I wouldn’t understand what I understand, were it… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college.… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“Writing … is an addiction, an illusory release, a presumptuous taming of reality, a way of expressing lightly the unbearable. That we… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“Publishing a book is like planting a vegetable seed. The first day your book is out there is the same as seeing… — Kevin Ortegel Copy Share Image
“Laura read a lot. She lived alone in a tiny bedsit and her television was so small and snowy she didn"t watch… — Katie Fforde Copy Share Image
“It was a common complaint amongst the Arts students that their library was in dire need of refurbishment. To call the old… — Erin Lawless Copy Share Image
“Go ahead, throw this book away. Spit on me. Revile me. I dare you. Cast me out of your intellectual orbit. Throw… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, but when… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
“I think that to be a good writer, you have to put yourself on the line, you have to think deeply about… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“What's wrong?" he asked. "What's wrong?" she repeated. "I don't know what's going on here but you need to put that book… — Alfred M. Struthers Copy Share Image
“As more and more norms disappear from social praxis, literature faces ever-growing difficulties. Its predicament is beginning to resemble that of a… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“What happened is the least of it. It’s a novel, and once you’ve finished a novel, what happened in it is of… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
I used to think that when I finished a book, I was finished with it. But it's like a wonderful Hydra. Every… — Tony Buzan Copy Share Image
Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For a book publisher, there is hardly a more dangerous category than that of celebrity autobiography. Forget who it's by, most books… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
