We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust. — Mick Farren Copy Share Image
“After much research I've found the secret to publishing: Write excellent books. Write lots of them.” — Liana Brooks Copy Share Image
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I'm excited to go study and read and immerse myself in something. — Sharon Van Etten Copy Share Image
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing. — Rebecca Ferguson Copy Share Image
“I have learned one lesson as a writer...keep writing and never throw any notes away. Written parts that can't be used today...may… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
That's all you have to ask from yourself writing a book. That it's the best you can do and that you did… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“When an idea suddenly appears I feel compelled to get it on paper and I keep writing until the flame disappears. Love… — Lee Bumbicka Copy Share Image
I am compulsive about writing, I need to do it the way I need sleep and exercise and food and sex; I… — John Irving Copy Share Image
One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'. — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
“Kafka noted in a letter to his friend Oskar Pollak that “some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s… — David Mikics Copy Share Image
I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Treat writing as a job. Be disciplined. Lots of writers get a bit OCD-ish about this. Graham Greene famously wrote 500 words… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
I had wanted to write 'The Possessed' as fiction, but everyone told me that no one would read a novel about graduate… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“The Arcade, and now Peabody's, combined to tell me that there was life in objects, in books. It was all about having… — Sheridan Hay Copy Share Image
“Books, by their very nature and variety, help us grow in empathy for others, in tolerance and awareness. But they should increase… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I'm an incredibly emotional person, but I always feel bad about that. The work is therapy... I need to emote wildly while… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
I don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
There is a tendency for writers to be most exciting by whatever they just wrote. Sometimes that excitement is warranted. Sometimes on… — Stone Gossard Copy Share Image
