“Stories allow the writer and the reader to live in the same world” — Irene Fantopoulos Copy Share Image
“reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with ones own” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“people who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened 1 are right to be” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world. — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written. — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I tend to start books with a very broad outline, but I always leave room for happy accidents. With 'The Passenger,' there… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
At a certain point, I got used to writing on demand. I developed a habit of writing like I hired myself! I… — Jake Holmes Copy Share Image
I'm generalizing wildly, but academic books find safety in explanations that reduce the chaos of social life. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
“What makes a writer successful is not money or fame (though both are nice) ... it's that in being true to her… — Miyoko Hikiji Copy Share Image
There've been times when I have existential conversations with myself, and I've thought about leaving and trying to apply my education better.… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
And then he left, and came back, and our lives fell apart, like a well-loved book that you’d read and read again,… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“But when you write something down, you have to think it all the way through. Sometimes, I'm not even sure how I… — Pat Murphy Copy Share Image
What wonderful and haunting worlds Krys Lee illuminates-a goose for a goose father, a sympathetic wife made bold by her husband's infidelity-… — Janice Y. K. Lee Copy Share Image
In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read… — Mohsen Makhmalbaf Copy Share Image
“I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.” — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories. — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I don't want to see libraries close; I want to find local solutions that will make them sustainable. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I write from what's in my heart. I write what I love and have always done that. — Kim Carnes Copy Share Image
Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything.” — Augusta Scattergood Copy Share Image
“Every book read with pleasure up to its end deserves a five star rating.” — Niovi Lyri Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to tell my story - or, more to the point, my side of the story. — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
