Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“You can measure how much you changed over the years by reading the same book twice” — Ela Crain Copy Share Image
Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.” — Garrett Leigh Copy Share Image
Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting,… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
While writing, you are more interested in seeing what happens with you in the process, because all that writing is just you… — Oz Perkins Copy Share Image
The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I'm bothered, as a reader, when I feel the writer is filling in too much. Again, whether it's nonfiction or fiction, I… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“My first big break came when I was five years old. It's taken me more than seventy years to realise that. You… — Sean Connery Copy Share Image
I read a lot, but at the same time I'm not a particularly good or diligent or discriminating reader. I go through… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I definitely rediscovered reading for pleasure by devoting such a large swath of my time to sitting on airplanes. I am now… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
The problem was, and we saw some of this in the immigration-reform issues as well, was they hadn't done sufficient homework to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I would pretend when I was a child that I was Charlotte Brontë, because I'd read Jane Eyre when I was ten… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“With the increased recognition that an important part of brain development occurs within the first three years of a child’s life, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
