Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival — Nora Gallagher Copy Share Image
I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time. — Mireille Guiliano Copy Share Image
Every hour you spend writing is an hour you don't spend worrying about your writing. — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Philip Roth has been a huge influence on me. The early books I read in my teens and twenties. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael… — Colin Greenwood Copy Share Image
“I know that sounds too earnest, but it’s true. I mean, I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
“Walter cares more about what a book has to say than he does about whether he can turn it into a stuffed… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight… — James Daly Copy Share Image
When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Bookselling is like prostitution, you sell your wares, you close your eyes, and you never fall in love with the clients. You… — Colin Bateman Copy Share Image
“What makes it is when you go over the whole piece each day from the start to where you go on from… — Paul Hendrickson Copy Share Image
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
After you publish a book, you become a writer and you're supposed to take it very seriously. You're supposed to show up… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Our reading can affect our imaginations in ways of which we are not consciously aware. It is quite common...to re-read something after… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
If you're rich, you can leave a library, a building, or a hospital wing. But writing leaves behind a visceral sense of… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“Writing your book is not the end all of your strategy. It is a powerful catalyst that will push you to the… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek Copy Share Image
Required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty… Weakened in body by infirmities and in mind by age, now… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I struggle with confidence, every time. I’m never completely sure I can write another book. Maybe my scope is too grand, my… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
