Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
“I haven't told why I wrote the book, but I haven't told you why I sneeze, either. A book is a sneeze.” — E.B. White Copy Share Image
“I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I hate requests. They make me feel unhappy. It's like when I take a book out of the library. As soon as… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What I always do is go with the stories that put up the hair on the back of my neck or make… — Beth Macy Copy Share Image
When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and… — Steven Sinofsky Copy Share Image
“It was not surprising that after the war Dostoevsky was linked to Kierkegaard as a prophet of social resignation.” — Martin Jay Copy Share Image
I think you sense the metaphorical resonance of what you're writing without analysing it too carefully. That leads you down dead ends.… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
...Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“His little sister is brilliant. She is at her desk deep in a book, half-opened books all over her desk, all over… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“ Books — the warm, leather-skinned weight of them in your hands, the way they smelled when you lifted them close to… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“job and Career Information Services Committee of the Adult Lifelong Learning Section of the Public Library Division of the American Library Association… — Public Library Association Copy Share Image
I read," I say. "I study and read. I bet I've read everything you read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I'm looking for a writer who doesn't know where the sentence is leading her; a writer who starts with her obsessions and… — Sy Safransky Copy Share Image
It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
There's no subject you don't have permission to write about. Students often avoid subjects close to their heart ... because they assume… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
gold is power-artemis fowl I liked the artemis fowl series because its about a boy genius — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“Beach reading: Planning on reading, but failing relentlessly due to the heart-stirring view.” — Malak El Halabi Copy Share Image
First hand on 'Go Goa Gone' I learnt how to write on final drafts, how the process works. — Kunal Khemu Copy Share Image
I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record. — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
Writers who take on polarising issues are apt to step on a few toes. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.” — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens. — Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon Copy Share Image
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much. — Mabel Seeley Copy Share Image
