“Books are a way of saying: This room seems to have more than its fair share of bozos in it.” — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Physical books are still my favorite, but I own an e-book reader. They're convenient for travel. — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“Writer can’t be writer twenty-four hours; and they have many avtars.” — Shankar Lamichhane Copy Share Image
You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free. — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings. — Ernst Lubitsch Copy Share Image
Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate. — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline:… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Life is like a book; Some friends are in there for a page, some are there for a chapter, but true ones… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“That is, so to speak, my own story. If I had a wish, I would wish that the sounds of the turning… — Akizuki Sorata Copy Share Image
“The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views upon the grave controversy… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time.… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
To write what is not dead on the page, one has to be open to all kinds of disturbances and challenges and… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
“In fact, ladies and gentlemen, I have never read any good book that was not related intimately to at least a score… — Maurice Francis Egan Copy Share Image
“Cynthia had been on friendly terms with an eccentric librarian called Porlock who in the last years of his dusty life had… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“The act of writing itself is like an act of love. There is contact. There is exchange too. We no longer know… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“I’ve tried to teach my writing friends that there are two arts: number one, getting a thing done; and then, the second… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
Enchanting is not the word that would immediately spring to mind when describing a play that deals with fractal geometry, iterated algorithms,… — Lyn Gardner Copy Share Image
We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often… — Gary Frank Copy Share Image
“I could not resist the clarity of the world in books, the incredibly satisfying way in which life became weighty and accessible.… — Frank Conroy Copy Share Image
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