My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“once she was engrossed in a good book, all other sounds faded into the background.” — Adele Abbott Copy Share Image
I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I've never been able to do just one draft. That seems a wonderful thing. Do you know anyone who can? — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people… — Tara Bray Smith Copy Share Image
A friend is like a book that has to be read to appreciate its beauty...as such, u are one of d finest… — Azgraybebly Joslan Copy Share Image
There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I don't keep anything on paper (except within an actual novel in progress, at which point I need a file to keep… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Every so often, I'll get an idea from a dream, but most of the time, ideas come to me while I'm toiling… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I can go anywhere. In fact, for 'Three Billboards,' I was just getting on trains around America. I wrote everywhere from New… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Any alphabet book for children where 'P is for Patti' Smith and 'X is for the women whose names we don't know'… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one's… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because there's no need… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
“Books can be viewed as food for the mind Stop reading and your brain can become anemic Read junk and your thinking… — Jonathan Frakes Copy Share Image
I don't know why I write. The honest answer is that I don't have an answer. I wouldn't die if I couldn't… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
“Burnout for librarians seems to me both foolish and unnecessary. . . . Work hard, work well, work effectively. Work until quitting… — Herbert S. White Copy Share Image
The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Jane became something of a walking thesaurus when she was upset, a side effect of too much reading.” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
The best way to get me to write more books is to read the ones that exist! — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a Luddite myself. I've got a bunch of typewriters at home. I'm a big fan of old technology. — Kerry Bishe Copy Share Image
“Books inspire us to dream, and then if we let them they will help us to achieve that dream!” — Carmela Dutra Copy Share Image
“Being a writer is a lot like being a mother, only books don't talk back when they get older.” — Nandi Berry Copy Share Image
The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
