“Everyone has a little book in them, and in most cases, that is where it should stay.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Someday, I want to write an unauthorized autobiography of myself.” — David McMullen-Sullivan Copy Share Image
I hate going back over what I've written. It makes me feel physically sick. — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough. — William Stafford Copy Share Image
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read! — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Book collecting is an obsession, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light… — Rachel Kadish Copy Share Image
Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as… — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
“But my writing won’t ever reflect the diversity that literature in general should be capable of. You need writers whose lives are… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“It is characteristic of Dickens who, when he grasps the wrong end of the stick, never fails to belabour everyone in sight… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“Usually when I enter a bookstore, I feel immediately calm. Bookstores are, for me, what churches are for other people. My breath… — Laurie Horowitz Copy Share Image
“As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
“The more you write, the more you find your voice. I think with my earlier stuff, when I was dabbling, it definitely… — Chessela Helm Copy Share Image
In American Romances, her new book of essays, Rebecca Brown has a voice that is full of pop references, family stories, and… — Susan Stinson Copy Share Image
“Your life is a Book; it may be a volume of larger or smaller size; and conversion is but the title-page or… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
Writing is this odd act, right? To sit and type, or write by hand, or whatever people do. And it requires a… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
“What The Mysteries of Udolpho suggests is how a novel, by presenting phenomena before it present resolutions, can create an on-going, perhaps… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
