I think it's extremely important that children are exposed to reading. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
writers just kept on staring at nothing until they wrote something. Might be two minutes or two weeks. — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
I'm a writer and a photographer - I'm totally aware that doesn't always translate to TV. — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
“The way I think, the way I act, most of that's because of the books I've read. ” — Andrea K. Höst Copy Share Image
People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
A new book is just like any new product, like a detergent. You have to acquaint people with it. They have to… — Jacqueline Susann Copy Share Image
There are plenty of books that tell you how to become a writer, but not one that suggests how, if you want… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves. — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
“When is talking about literature not an evasion of the real question at hand? Although a nice-enough evasion.” — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
I think if you decide that any book is about Only One Thing you're probably wrong. Even if that thing is in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It… — Jack Lasenby Copy Share Image
“Consider the millions who are buying those modern Aladdin’s lamps called e-readers. These magical devices, ever more beautiful and nimble in design,… — Steve Wasserman Copy Share Image
No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Have you really read all those books in your room?” Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em.… — John Green Copy Share Image
The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
. I used to advise writers to just write their books and it will find a home, and suddenly that didn't seem… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself.… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
If I could have found what I needed at thirteen, I would not have lost so much of my life chasing vindication… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I could not write my books without the library's help. Even with the ease of Internet research, I find books to be… — Peg Kehret Copy Share Image
There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later. — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
“Author, Family Tree The Novel quote- "Total understanding, is sharing the same feeling.” — Andrea N. Carr Copy Share Image
Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark? — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I just write the stuff I want to at the time, what feels right for me. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Just got called a slag by two guys sitting outside the University of York library. A slag for books?” — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that? — Abbi Jacobson Copy Share Image
A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
