The real threat to reading isn’t the time we spend hanging out, it’s the time we spend online. — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
I was reading Neil Postman's 'Amusing Ourselves to Death'. It's one of my favourites. — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
I love the physical act of writing as well as how I grow which each situation I put on the page. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“Most people weren’t aware that books chose us, at the time when we needed them most.” — Rebecca Raisin Copy Share Image
Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that… — Avi Copy Share Image
Digital doesn't interest me. It's too many steps removed from the actual tactile thing. I still read books. I don't read online. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
I collect books, and I love libraries. I love bookstores. And to me meeting a writer is important. And when I saw… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable. — Don Henley Copy Share Image
I'll never retire. They'll have to take my computer out of my cold, dead hands. I'm addicted to writing. I feel physically… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
“The viewpoint character in each story is usually someone trapped in a living nightmare, but this doesn't guarantee that we and the… — Francis M. Nevins Copy Share Image
“but to write it well and write the time well, you must learn to love your subjects to their core, even if… — Nick Miller Copy Share Image
“Freelancing requires such strict adherence to toadyism, to sycophancy, to the grubbiest, lowliest submissions. It is an on-spec life and it is… — Richard Morgan Copy Share Image
That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
“There are many famous people who could read extremely fast. It was said that England’s Samuel Johnson could read almost as fast… — Peter Kump Copy Share Image
My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
For me, while writing I am an engineer, so if I decide to change the format, I want to add a section,… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
When I write, it's almost like it really sets in my brain. I don't ever go back and read it. — Jon Rahm Copy Share Image
“reading has as many functions as the human body, and... not all of them are cerebral.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“No better way to avoid making a decision than burying yourself in a big fat book.” (p. 105).” — Elizabeth Bard Copy Share Image
I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Do I have to talk to insane people?" "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
