My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.' — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate! — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“But I am a writer, and I deal in words, and I need to have them spelled out for me--precisely.” — Sydney Jane Baily Copy Share Image
the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person. — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Visibility is one of the most difficult parts of the self-publishing equation. No matter how great your book is, it is fighting… — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
The number-one rule of writing is write what you know--or something like that. So I wrote about my experiences. — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Sometimes writers like to imagine that the difficulty of becoming a writer resides in convincing others that that is what you are.… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“Nonfiction. I didn’t choose it as much as it chose me. It squatted and birthed me one raw winter day then jerked… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
Like most writers, I look back on all of my finished works with utter regret, and the trouble with writing a series… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you.… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
I think the public library system is one of the most amazing American institutions. Free for everybody. If you ever get the… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Books are never harmless...they either strengthen us or they weaken us in our faith. Some of them do this even as they… — Peter Prange Copy Share Image
If you open the door and realize things like the fact that Batman is occupying the same narrative space that Robin Hood… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I was a lot dumber when I was writing the novel. I felt like worse of a writer because I wrote many… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Always tell us where we are. And don't just tell us where something is, make it pay off. Use description of landscape… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
