There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“You can learn to do anything in the world if your life depends on it and if you can read.” — Lee A. Siegel Copy Share Image
I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
“The good writers touch life. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I've always been a writer. I hope to continue to write books until I can't anymore. — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone. — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
“The bookcase was filled with computer games, history books, and sci-fi novels in about equal proportions. Odd reading choices, maybe, but I… — Mike Mullin Copy Share Image
A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
I love books with titles like, 'How Do You Spank a Porcupine?,' 'Arnie, the Darling Starling,' or 'The Bat in My Pocket.' — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think novelists perform many useful tasks for their fellow citizens, but one of the most valuable is this: to enable us… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I primarily write nonfiction. Research, reflection, and spending time with ideas are important to me. So, this is how I spend most… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
There wasn't a persona or an attitude that I could reliably write good stuff from.There wasn't a persona or an attitude that… — Andy Daly Copy Share Image
There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
It's more like I write multiple first drafts, handwritten. So with my first novel, I wrote whole drafts from different points of… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
I keep threatening to write a non-fantasy book, and they keep offering me the kind of money I can't refuse to write… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
