“Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization. Libraries” — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
I've always just wished that maybe someday people would care about the words that I wrote. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.' — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“I feel pretty good about it so far, but it's been a little harder to write than I'd hoped.” — Peter Davis Copy Share Image
“Every writer at least once in his/er lifetime creates a character who loves books.” — Himanshu Chhabra Copy Share Image
What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find… — Sara Gilbert Copy Share Image
Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways,… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
I could've wrote down every thought I've been thinking to myself all this past year, but would it stand out? Woah, I… — The Ready Set Copy Share Image
“Augustine was struck by the fact, when they first met, that Ambrose read to himself, a habit unknown to the classical world:… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“I had to go back and reread the page a few times. As I read it, I kept drifting out of the… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The secret studies of an author are the sunken piers upon which is to rest the bridge of his fame, spanning the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I find writing for children much easier. I don't mean it's less demanding - you've got to have a talent for it… — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share Image
Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“She didn't really enjoy reading but she liked how the books were clues. Each one a piece in a puzzle. Even when… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
“Do not be afraid to seize whatever you have written and cut it to ribbons; it can always be restored to its… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
