“But writers and their woes: they couldn't be parted. Not for anything.” — Naomi Wood Copy Share Image
“I'm a bookaholic on the road to recovery. Ha, not really. I'm on the road to the bookstore.” — Author Unknown Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I just kind of put myself in a place, in a certain time period in my life. — Cuco Copy Share Image
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“This book is for you, the reader. Without you, this book wouldn't be possible. None of this would be.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself. — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
“All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read.” — Ann Marie Frohoff Copy Share Image
“There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
When I am writing alone I try to just write for myself without thinking, like, this will go on a record. — Julien Baker Copy Share Image
My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
“By living a life “against nature,” the deviant or pervert becomes a hero or heroine in decadent fiction.” — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I really recommend that anyone who wants to write have a very physical hobby that takes you away from books and criticism,… — Jo-Ann Mapson Copy Share Image
We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
I have ventured out and written about real-life experiences that I haven't gone through myself, but I've known people to go through… — Cassadee Pope Copy Share Image
Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
“This book is for a black light, a bottom bunk and a hug, For a doorway, a pair of kicked-off shoes and… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
“Writing allows a person to explore both physical reality and the internal workings of their mind. Writing places us in touch with… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I didn't doubt for a moment that she had read them all, or that they were the right books to own. Further,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“I always gave her a book. An old hardback from the same section in the used bookstore where you'd find Hardy Boys… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
