“Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“I prefer reading books than the time on your watch.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
“The man who doesn't read has no advantage over the man who cannot read." Mark Twain” — Tim Underwood Copy Share Image
In many ways my writing is like therapy. It is my way of dealing with things. — Corey Smith Copy Share Image
The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Four Inevitabilities: 1. Musty Books. 2. Uninteresting Nature. 3. Dull Existence. 4. Blank Nirvana, buy that boy. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I probably am a cranky writer, but I am actually a fairly nice, normal person. Since I'm a grouchy writer, of course… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“It is better to read one intellectually challenging book every 12 months … than to read 12 entertaining books every month.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts... I write because it is dangerous, a bloody… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“...life is like an essay. Each day is a new draft- identify the strengths and build on them; identify the weaknesses and… — Michael Goldfine- in the book "Habits of the Mind Across the Curriculum" edited by Arthur Costa and Copy Share Image
All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
“Marianne Fairfield, Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Public Library; Barbara Fellows, Public Library of Columbus and Franklin County (Ohio); Vera A. Green, Carnegie Library… — Public Library Association Copy Share Image
I don't really decide what the core of the story is before I write. I write to figure out what the story… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Ralph Ellison is a classic work of erudition, grace, and elegance. Rampersad offers us an Ellison whose gifts and warts orbit the… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination:… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and… — Edith Hall Copy Share Image
“In my Craft or Sullen Art Not for the proud man apart From the raging moon I write . On these spindrift… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. — Mos Def Copy Share Image
“He said to me, ‘The book has found its reader,’ and what could I do but agree with him?” — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Nothing beats a good part with good writers that you get to come back to year after year. — Merritt Wever Copy Share Image
“If you were a book, I’d read you, touch you, look at you every day and never get bored.” — Ella Fields Copy Share Image
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think our material is our lives. That's part of being a modern writer, and we have to use it. — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
When I write promotionally, I guess I give away the ones I'm less connected to. — Sia Copy Share Image
“My idea of Hell is to be stuck in a library where all the books were authored by Marcel Proust.” — Marc Rainer Copy Share Image
“I am a writer and things which don't happen in real world, happen in my world.” — Amay Saxena Copy Share Image
“Sleeping with books is a vicious affair, I do not believe it will ever stop.” — R. YS Perez Copy Share Image
“When you believe you've become the best writer you can be… you still aren’t.” — Michael J. Kannengieser Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, is always a dance between the critical part of my brain and the subconscious. — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
