If you're going to read five books, three should be issues and two for fun. — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
I began to see that the short texts I was writing were poster material. — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
Reading is not work, not a chore, not a drudgery; reading is the most joyful thing, yet, in the world. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I'm always writing. There's no stopping. It's just that you can't see it sometimes. — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
“A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape. Even when you're the one writing it.” — Julie Wright Copy Share Image
Of course, I write. I have stories to tell. But I don't want to do superficial stuff any more. — Aparna Sen Copy Share Image
One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Most of us live in two worlds - our real world and the one we build or spin for ourselves out of… — Julia L. Sauer Copy Share Image
a writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
It's amazing what I could've written in my life if I had realized that I should keep writing and not masturbating. — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
Seriously, I don't consider myself a writer. I don't think I have writing talent. But I will continue to do it. — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I've found the 90-10 rule to be pretty true: 90 percent of what I come up with and write down is kinda… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
“After each book the world changes in my eyes, i have become more suspicious and eager at the same time.” — Anna Jae Copy Share Image
My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
A hidden nerve is what every writer is ultimately about. It's what all writers wish to uncover when writing about themselves in… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
I have been ineluctably drawn to libraries ever since I entered that sanctum sanctorum. It was a place of quietude. In a… — Carmen Agra Deedy Copy Share Image
“What she discovered was mostly shelves of battered paperbacks, not exactly the insulation she’d had in mind, and when the dynamite bundle… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I want to engage the reader. I'm an emotional writer, in the sense that I would be happy if you re-read a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For the grand and inescapable tradition of western literary classics confronts us with fundamental choices over our understanding of words, reading and… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." — Mark Twain Beh-Rang… — Samad Beh-Rang Copy Share Image
I think some people think that writers read and read and read, get the information, and then write. That's not how it… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“That’s why you should flip through the pages so that someday you’d be an ebook author. So doing you’d save a newer… — S. A. David Copy Share Image
“Yesterday is the history chapter in the book of life, isn't it time you turned the page?” — Rob Liano Copy Share Image
“Kerri turned each page slowly, lifting the next page and scanning the pictures” — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about. — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction. — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Having the courage to say the truth, unabashedly, is the hardest part of writing.” — Carolyn Moncel Copy Share Image
I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I keep writing stories that I might want to bring to life one day. — Satyadev Kancharana Copy Share Image
I'm a book nerd, and I've seen authors that I love, I've gone and seen them speak or read from a book. — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
