“My priority as a writer is that my reader's entertainment comes first, second, and last.” — B.J. Kibble Copy Share Image
Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“No matter how valuable these books, it seems a bit sad to let them go unread,” — Isuna Hasekura Copy Share Image
The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The verbs that are used for people who write quickly are almost never flattering. — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
Nobody had books at home. My dad was a very educated person, so he would have books at home. All Spanish books.… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
“To dream of afar, to chase a star, to believe in Captain Hook. To dance with bears and have no cares, this… — H.L. Stephens Copy Share Image
Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they… — John Green Copy Share Image
Ideologically, I have a lot of problems with that, especially when people toss around that form of story as realism. What's called… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
Kate Forsyth’s Bitter Greens is an enthralling concoction of history and magic, an absorbing, richly detailed, and heart-wrenching reimagining of a timeless… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
In many ways, writing is the act of saying 'I,' of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, 'Listen to me, see… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I don't think about the reader when I'm writing, but I do when I'm editing, of course. For instance, I self-consciously didn't… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I couldn't have articulated this process at the time; I just sort of did it instinctually. But now when I talk about… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
The success that comes from my books is not something I feel very comfortable with. Past a certain point you have to… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
Kids just don't read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It's just hard to get kids to read… — Stan Sakai Copy Share Image
It is the most fun I’m ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, there’s nothing in… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“I used to say that the greatest gift you could ever give anyone is a book. But I don't say that anymore… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility. — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
“Books will give you new ideas to fly and books can be find in the libraries” — Abid Hussain Library Officer Copy Share Image
Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction. — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city. — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing. — Grant Heslov Copy Share Image
Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty. — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
It's not the principles that kill you in the end. It's the books. — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching. — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Cult writer. It's a weird term because it's complimentary but condescending at the same time. — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
