There is a direct correlation between the books you read and the success you achieve. — David Cottrell Copy Share Image
The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Yeah, I think good writers have a lot of discipline and I don't have that in me. — Alex G Copy Share Image
As a writer, penning down personal stuff was not easy for me, as it was way too close to my heart. — Sonali Bendre Copy Share Image
“The struggle to write continues within me. I aim to write with more depth, clarity, purpose, and substance.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
People send me songs all the time that are literally no-brainer hits... but for me, I'm an artist because I'm a writer. — Kelsea Ballerini Copy Share Image
I write a letter to my mother every day, because in that letter, I write down my day. And if I don't… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I have books I like very much, but I don't think there are any books that everyone should read. I prefer a… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
When you are going through something that heavy, for me anyway, I couldn't imagine writing about anything else. I always tend to… — Nicole Atkins Copy Share Image
Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
I was the kid who read a lot and who was academic, and who was more of an indoor person than an… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, authors talk to us, give… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Childrens librarians are… — John Green Copy Share Image
Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“And every writer cherishes the dream of setting the young on fire, even if only by a cigarette butt tossed casually over… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
What I remove from my writing is linear context. It's not really important to me, because it doesn't give me chills to… — Doseone Copy Share Image
a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
