“If you need to force yourself to put a book down to breathe, you know it's a good one ;)” — H.A. Kotys Copy Share Image
“In my card catalogue, the Dewey Decimal System had placed him firmly under Ancient History.” — S.E. Harmon Copy Share Image
These days I am ruled by doubt, and that is a difficult place to write from. — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“People who do not read have no advantage over those who can not read.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Why do you think Beauty picked the Beast? It was the library.” — Chelsea M. Cameron Copy Share Image
To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease and intimacy with the process of writing; one comes to the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The key thing if you're a writer is to visualize the scene and convey it to the penciller and turn the penciller… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
Because all writers are human beings first and writers second, my guess is that any advice for living with a writer is… — Clyde Edgerton Copy Share Image
The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of… — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
It’s a job. It’s not a hobby. You don’t write the way you build a model airplane. You have to sit down… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
“Those of a future generation will one day look back on printed books with the same benign and befuddled expressions that we… — Jason Merkoski Copy Share Image
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
“We have a lot of books in our house. They are our primary decorative motif-books in piles and on the coffee table,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
I put a lot of pressure on myself to figure out what to say and, lately, I've started trying to work through… — Steve Gunn Copy Share Image
I've never talked to anyone writing a book on me. I've had so much written about me that is made up, usually… — Warren Beatty Copy Share Image
