“Each word... each paragraph... each page I write gets me one step closer to my dream.” — Elizabeth Paradise Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling. — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
“The record store was a place of escape. It was a library and a clubhouse” - Cameron Crowe quoted” — Gary Calamar Copy Share Image
“For knowledge to be digested, it must be absorbed with relish," wrote Anatole France.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching - it is what the books will get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The writing workshops and programs that are everywhere have encouraged writing. And if that produces more writing, it's also producing more readers… — James Salter Copy Share Image
I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly… — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
“Wicked people never have time for reading,” Dewey said. “It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.” — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
I found it instructive and highly constructive as a writer to go to a point of disaster and come out with a… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
Whenever I meet people for the first time, I assume that they have a great story to tell and that it's my… — Sarah Ferguson Copy Share Image
People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know,… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Almost 70 years have gone by, and I've still got that feeling when I write... Writing, for me, is still it. It… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Kyria Abrahams, former teen bride of a doomsday cult and seeker of salvation in slam poetry, tells the terribly funny story of… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
Names don't matter, CVs don't matter, previous publications don't matter at all, because, in a certain way, the ideal is for someone… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
Nothing will ever replace the experience of wandering haphazardly through a great bookstore, no matter how many algorithms are developed to find… — Dominique Browning Copy Share Image
I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Hear me now or regret it later: Everything you write must be read aloud. Once all the context items are in place,… — Jiro Adachi Copy Share Image
I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. It's always a little bittersweet, too. — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them! — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“I always wanted to write a book that ended with the word Mayonnaise.” — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“I'm Margarita Staples." She bowed in her harness. "Extreme librarian. Bookaneer.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Not everything came easy. I always fancied myself a decent writer, but” — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there. — John Prine Copy Share Image
“People certainly will love what you write, when you represent them in your words.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Move on,its just a chapter in the past,but don't close the book,Turn The Page. — IrisJC Copy Share Image