“...when you talk about books everything seems different. More beautiful, I guess.” — Andrej Blatnik Copy Share Image
I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say. — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“But preserve your mistrust of the page, for a book is a fortress, a place of weeping, the key to a desert,… — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Reading" had always been my lifeline-- an escape to that imaginary world where hurts were fictional and endings happy...” — Phyllis Whitney Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in… — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If you directly try to write about an idea, it will never be what you imagined. But if you're imagining through the… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
“In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The librarians that I've spoken to, the teachers and the librarians who really care and do advise parents and children of what's… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
I think every writer has their waves of inspiration and their ways of doing things. But writing is very difficult for me.… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
A journal is your completely unaltered voice - it's just for you. And if you know that voice, and you like it,… — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
“The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn’t want to be a writer. I wanted to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
