Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them. — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books. — John Hersey Copy Share Image
“A simple look can not and will not uncover even a simple book.” — ferrrer joey palomar fesico Copy Share Image
I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“The book identifies you as part of the tribe. On the opposite extreme, there are people who will walk up to you… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you” — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences -… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“As an author my number 1 goal is to help others overcome despair...which is something that has plague me in my lifetime.… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
In The Jaguar's Children we enter the dangerous borderlands between countries and generations; myth and magic; human community and the vast, infinitely… — Melanie Rae Thon Copy Share Image
“Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't work either.… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“Who are they?” I whispered, as we took seats opposite each other. Scout glanced up as she pulled notebooks and books from… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“However, the major issue is not how many of these books are purchased but how many get used. Our Debased Head Honcho… — Don Hawkins Copy Share Image
