I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom. — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing is not about ideas, it is about the expression of ideas - a written expression.” — Paul Raymond Martin Copy Share Image
Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“Books are boring.' 'Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
My best writing is often early in the morning and, sometimes, while working out. — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“What's the point in being smart enough to read, if everything you read makes you dumb?" - Fatts - Coffee and Sugar” — C. Sean McGee Copy Share Image
“If you must slander someone, don't speak it - but write it - write it in the sand, near the water's edge!” — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
A librarian is not a legal process. There is not librarian in the country unless she or he is a lawyer who… — Judith Krug Copy Share Image
“If peace had a smell, he thought, it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.” — Mark Pryor Copy Share Image
It's very unlikely that a writer is going to make a living by writing. So then the question is: how do you… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
This book blew me away. Kelly Parra writes with the keen eye of an artist. Graffiti Girl is warm, gutsy, and true-to-life… — Anne Frasier Copy Share Image
“ Like all men of the Library, I have traveled in my youth; I have wandered in search of a book, perhaps… — José Borges Copy Share Image
“I present a full proof method for discovering whether or not your being a writer, a natural wordsmith, is your gift or… — A.K. Kuykendall Copy Share Image
“For ten years before I began writing for a living, I worked as a registered nurse. Never mind that the work was… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
In this deeply nuanced portrait of an American family, Bret Anthony Johnston fearlessly explores the truth behind a mythic happy ending. In… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“The extermination of Poland's literary heritage was frighteningly efficient. Researchers have estimated that 70 percent of all books in Poland were destroyed… — Anders Rydell Copy Share Image
“During my sixteen years as a teacher of writing, I removed many adverbs and adverbial phrases from students' writing. I decided long… — Gerald Murnane Copy Share Image
Digital texts are all well and good, but books on shelves are a presence in your life. As such, they become a… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
It may sound strange, but when you're a kid and you're in that environment, for some reason for a long time you… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
As for literature – to introduce children to literature is to install them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
