'Librarians' is surprisingly touching in a lot of ways where it's not expected. — Dean Devlin Copy Share Image
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I love telling stories. You know why I love it? Because people love listening. — Lidia Bastianich Copy Share Image
When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer. — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
“The worst mistake a writer can make is to assume everyone has an imagination.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Composition can't really be taught, it is a lifelong learning. — Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Copy Share Image
It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from… — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my… — Billie Piper Copy Share Image
When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
It is said that an Author won't become a great writer until they've suffered. I guess I'm in the throws of a… — Christel Tait Copy Share Image
The first book I bought was 'Anne of Green Gables,' an edition that is beautiful and complete - one I hope to… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know… — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am a writer!! — Anamika Mishra Copy Share Image
“(from his random observations after reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens) In the Old Curiosity Shop I discovered that in the character… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
To read Lucia St. Clair Robson is to learn while being thoroughly entertained. Last Train from Cuernavaca puts us through the tragic… — James Alexander Thom Copy Share Image
... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
For any writer, the ability to look at a sentence and see what's superfluous, what can be altered, revised, expanded, and, especially,… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of… — William S. McFeely Copy Share Image
The Hawley Book of the Dead had me completely spellbound from beginning to end. A storytelling virtuosa, Chrysler Szarlan has woven a… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
“Every library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some of my most enjoyable moments as a writer have come while conjuring a meet cute. — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“An author is just someone who remembers their dreams a little better than some others.” — T.C. Slonaker Copy Share Image
I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story. — Om Puri Copy Share Image
Most writers flourish greatly on a simple, healthy routine with occasional time off for gaiety. — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
“It was from just a few sentences that a writer learned anything from another writer.” — John Irving Copy Share Image
Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
