“...you must have brought something. Books? I never saw you without a green bag of books.” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“It’s not that you expect anything in particular from this particular book. You’re the sort of person who, on principle, no longer… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living.” — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“But to her, libraries were like hotels: secret villages inhabited by passing strangers from a thousand different worlds brought together just for… — Simon Montefiore Copy Share Image
“don’t expect a magic formula that’ll make books fall out of your head and automatically give you a wide readership.” — David Morrell Copy Share Image
Writing is a sedentary gig unless one has a treadmill desk. But I have long believed writing and working out are complementary… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
I like that you can open up any one of my books anywhere and immediately be lost. I just love them so… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
When a series is doing well, it's very tempting to keep writing it, even when the creative well is drying up. It's… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
One sheds one's sicknesses in books--repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.One sheds one's sicknesses in books--repeats and… — DH Lawrence Copy Share Image
Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Krys Lee has written a book of unforgettable stories, each one building on the other to create a complex, moving portrait of… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
The Glittering World is a stunning phantasmagoria drawn from the world just beneath the surface, aswarm with great and memorable characters and… — Keith Donohue Copy Share Image
“I had read four thousand pages of letters by Lawrence and I wanted thousands of pages more... I wanted them not to… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“Don’t dash off a six-thousand-word story before breakfast. Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
I actually read each one everytime and send a copy to myself or take a picture of it — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The more characters you have, the bigger the book, the more flaming chain saws.” — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“There's a difference between a book being too expensive and a customer being too cheap.” — Shaun Bythell Copy Share Image
“If you are writing and no-one reads it, are you a writer, or you just writing?” — Matt Drabble Copy Share Image
I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea. — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Fitting people with books is about as difficult as fitting them with shoes. — Sylvia Beach Copy Share Image
Every now and then, you find a book that feels like it was keyed to your DNA. — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
My identity is based around being a writer. I can't not write. It's a compulsion. — Mike Cernovich Copy Share Image
I'm not really great at writing things down unless for a roast or a particular event. — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in… — Richard Harding Davis Copy Share Image
“In my 8th decade of life, it appears as though my reading list resembles a random walk.” — Lotus Landry Copy Share Image
