I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel. — David Shields Copy Share Image
I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
When I write for myself, I think about myself and draw from my own experience. — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
“Most of the books published these days consist of a series of whines followed by an epiphany.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“Anton Chekhov wisely said, “"The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation between a man of sense… — Earl Of Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“She couldn’t imagine how anyone would want to forego the intimate experience of a book—pages whispering between the fingers, hurried glances at… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“That is what a book is: a million little things, a thousand feelings, hundreds of experiences, all melted together and sculpted into… — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
I don't write. I usually look for material by other people. Sometimes I change things or adapt things but I don't write… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
“Most people put off my mother's erratic behavior to the fact that she was a writer, as if that just explained everything.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
When I was really young, Dad wasn't that well known. I don't remember when I realised he was a writer, but I… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“I inhaled the musty, leathery, old-papery scent and a shiver passed over me. If I had any idea of heaven, it was… — Clay Carmichael Copy Share Image
I think I've never left my house to take a plane without writing my will. There must be about 30 wills in… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books… To be in a… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
I think I sit down to the typewriter when it's time to sit down to the typewriter. That isn't to suggest that… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“—And I won't deny your neighbors will take you more seriously if you tell them you've written a novel. (Of course if… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
