“g sees himself as an independent reader: he buys all of the books on the literary prize lists.” — Joanna Walsh Copy Share Image
Access to public libraries also affects how much children read. — Stephen D. Krashen Copy Share Image
You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel. — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
I think I would die if I couldn't get to the typewriter every day. I really need that. — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. It's just because I don't have much time. — Francisco Costa Copy Share Image
I always sympathize with people who complain about the length of my books. It would take me a year to get through… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
“Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Snoop is a tour de force! It’s one of the smartest and most original books I’ve come across in a long time.… — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
I'm reading Our Ecstatic Days, by Steve Erickson. It's an extraordinary journey and the most exciting thing I've found since The Master… — Sienna Guillory Copy Share Image
Reading was my only escape from reality. Through books, I could be whoever I wanted. I could fall in love with the… — Teresa Mummert Copy Share Image
It was not a choice of writing or not writing. It was a choice of loving my life or not loving my… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“take details from “real life” into fiction and make them believable requires careful work: creating characters the reader can believe would do… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“That's the real distinction between people: not between those who have secrets and those who don't, but between those who want to… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed… — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
