“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands." (As quoted on BookRiot , June 18, 2013)” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species. — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30. — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
“Books only change the world if the world is capable of digesting them.” — Luther Blissett Copy Share Image
I'm nothing. Nothing at all without writing. Without truth, my truth, the only truth I know, it's all a gambol in the… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations ... — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Kay came to realize that she preferred her books to other people’s company. Reading was not a fallback position for her but… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
If you can start and finish a book, then you're already a million miles ahead of all those people who talk about… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
“...If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood—but no self- respecting writer should ever… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Any time someone doesn't like one on the first run, I hope they will give it another shot. At least we'll get… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
This was an age before e-books. We all knew that the only way you can allow a book to survive in print… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
If you have some other profession that allows you your evenings or weekends, terrific, stick with that. Having a profession other than… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
“Writing is more fun when you have a partner, so find friends who share your research interests. Two authors can write faster,… — Paul J. Silvia Copy Share Image
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
People say, 'All my son will read is 'Captain Underpants,' or 'My son is crazy about shark books, is that O.K.?' I… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
When I write I get to the point where I slow down and I gotta go back into the world and live… — Rakim Copy Share Image
“Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries. — David Strathairn Copy Share Image
Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable. — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about. — Mitski Copy Share Image
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
In some ways, I think it's the closest that we come to the truth — is in the form of fiction. — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing about writing a novel is getting it published.” — Marianne Cushing Copy Share Image
“And asking people to take the time to read and actually think about stuff? Heaven forbid.” — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“The impersonality of the written word made it the easiest means of exchange...” — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.” — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
Good thought can be imbibed by reading and studying good books and by contemplating on them. — Yajur Veda Copy Share Image
