It's an absolute disgrace that there isn't a books programme on the BBC. — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
I have fun writing. I don't make it a chore. I don't have to struggle with it. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
I was, as a kid, really obsessed with reading... that was about as geeky as you could possibly get. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Sleeplessness and being a writer seem to go together hand in hand.” — Jason E. Hodges Copy Share Image
In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“I do not understand people who do not read. What are they doing in their free times?” — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths,… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
“My books nourish my soul. When I open a cover and begin to read, I go to new places, to worlds I… — Ann Hite Copy Share Image
I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The big advantage of a book is that it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning. — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Contrast J. D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye. The author adopts the childish view of adults as inhumanly powerful and uncomprehending, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Being a published author is not just about selling books, or winning awards but it is also about the authors’ own maturity… — Mehreen Ahmed Copy Share Image
There are some great writers who are great talkers, but there are more great writers who are not great talkers. People seem… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and… — Emilia Fox Copy Share Image
“When you read as many books as Klaus Baudelaire, you are going to learn a great deal of information that might not… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“The worst part? Knowing that since a book this moving, this enthralling and enveloping comes along, as I said, only every once… — Amazon Books Editors Copy Share Image
“The way Winny saw it, the best thing and the worst thing were the same thing: nothing lasted ... what to say… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Again and again as we discussed Lolita in that class, our discussions were colored by my students' hidden personal sorrows and joys.… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
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