Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I've seen firsthand how books can change people's lives. It happened to me. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Books became my life, or maybe I should say books became the way I escaped from my life.” — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
People may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there. — Robert D. Putnam Copy Share Image
Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do. — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I'm way more in my head acting than I am when I'm writing. So there's a weird love/hate on both ends. But… — Anders Holm Copy Share Image
The effect of reading literary non-fiction that matters most to me is when the coin drops, and this happens in the company… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
“To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“If books had not bound together the experiences of former generations, the shackles of later generations in their forgetfulness would not have… — Mahbud Copy Share Image
“The walls were lined with shelves, and she insulated their nest with volumes collected over the years. Their decor was the many… — Kenneth Calhoun Copy Share Image
“first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“...but every living soul is a book of their own history, which sits on the ever-growing shelf in the library of human… — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
I have things that I'm interested in, and I'm not really interested in writing about anything that I'm not interested in. But… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“We should write because it is human nature to write. Writing claims our world. It makes it directly and specifically our own.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“It was then that I began to write. Writing helps when you can't talk to your friends; it wasn't that my friends… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
Don’t be in too much of a rush to be published. There is enormous value in listening and reading and writing—and then… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
“As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted the larger world. Like Edith, Theodore filled pages… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“You do not need to be temperamental or upset to be a novelist. Don’t embrace the tortured artist rhetoric that any life… — Bryant A. Loney Copy Share Image
Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever. — John Green Copy Share Image
I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading. — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
“Writing may be masturbatory, but God forbid it should be an act off autocannibalism.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I write not because I'm free but because everyday I find some time for myself¦ — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library. — Paula Spencer Copy Share Image
Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction. — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
Just a writer with a pen, writing about my life of sin. Shit, I don't even know where to begin.. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair. — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
“I recommend writing standing up from time to time. It's easier to dance when you finish writing.” — Diego Ramos Copy Share Image
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
“Write so blazingly good that you can't be framed... Write like a motherfucker.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year! — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Yes, I write a lot of my own stuff. I love to write, it allows you to be real and show yourself. — Ray J Copy Share Image
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
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