“Excuse me, I feel interrupted and I think I've overdose from the idea of loving you.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Reading. I know it's not a very active activity, but it is in my head. — Rachel Miner Copy Share Image
Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others. — David Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Books keep you company when you're alone. They're your friends through a rainy day.” — Owl Copy Share Image
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I learnt to read when I was five, and I think that is the most important thing that happened to me. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I first read 'Lord of the Flies' as a teenager. I remember feeling disillusioned afterwards, but not for a second did I… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
When self-publishing started, it was mostly people who really couldn't write. And they just wanted to get their book out, and they… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
“In the pseudoiterative, one performs the ritual of the day attentive to both the joy of the familiar and the shiver of… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
I work sometimes from outlines, which are immediately abandoned. Sometimes, when I'm trying to find the characters, I'll sketch things out a… — Paul Rudnick Copy Share Image
“Despite membership in the guild of outcasts, writers do, by quirk of fate or sex or addiction or parenthood, become intimate with… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
“It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. Most likely you will… — The Pocket University - Volume XXIII Copy Share Image
There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
“For grief has always been so dear to you that you would make me writhing in pain in the brothel of your… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
Many spend their time berating practitioners for not applying their method. We all need to disseminate our ideas, but most of our… — David Parnas Copy Share Image
Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
