“Hardin, Garrett, Filters Against Folly (New York: Penguin, 1985).” — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours. — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
“I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer.” — Tom Conrad Copy Share Image
“Reading makes me feel like I've lived a thousand lives in addition to my own.” — Arlaina Tibensky Copy Share Image
Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I knew early on that I was going to be a writer. I think it's something rather like a curse that you're… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader. — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for… — Lady Bird Johnson Copy Share Image
Because I don’t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_education3.htmlgqDWEHxuOJyvI5s2.99 — Zahid Abas Copy Share Image
“Someone once said writing and gardening are similar pursuits. Tell you what, I'd have one fucked up garden if that were the… — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
Every aspect of the novel is - or should be - an arrow pointed towards its ultimate meaning, or a multiplicity of… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish;… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
What a person loves at 20 may seem stupid at 35. That doesn't mean the book was stupid, it means that the… — Carl Deuker Copy Share Image
Lifes That Way was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasnt written as a book. It was written as a… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
“Every writing session after this realization, I dedicated five minutes (sometimes more, never less) and wrote out a quick description of what… — Rachel Aaron Copy Share Image
“I write from Spirit. When it’s time for me to write, I have to lose myself in that world - meet my… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal. — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors. — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process. — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“Words cannot do justice to the pleasures of a good bookshop. Ironically.” — Unsure of origin Copy Share Image
By making time to read, like making time to love, we expand our time for living. — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
“Dogeared pages were Antichrist of book lovers everywhere.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
Typically, booksellers like to put things into neat little categories. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it. — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it. — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
