Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them. — James Ellis Copy Share Image
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. Ive only ever had one. — Babloo Copy Share Image
What is your advice to young writers?Drink, fuck and smoke plentyof cigarettes. — Hemantsmarty Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“A person's books are private, not to be poked around by others at will.” — Kate Furnivall Copy Share Image
“Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books.” — Natalie S. Bober Copy Share Image
There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I've always had a desire to write something and capture people's imagination like Peter Pan had captured mine. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text. — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
Many adults that I have met in my time believed that picture books are 'babyish'. I hope I have changed minds on… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The more we are willing to separate from distraction and step into the open arms of boredom, the more writing will get… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Many times, working is kind of like channeling, and I really don't know what's going to fall on the page. I just… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
“If (a writer) has applied himself to an art for 15 or 20 years and they’ve gotten good at it, and they’re… — John Irving Copy Share Image
In my own life as a reader I experience real moments of alienation when a writer feels too perfect, or like even… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
When I write a story, I have no idea what I'm doing. All I know is that I want to share something… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books we inherit… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves,… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
