Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
I've experienced being properly lost in my desires, and it's really influenced my writing. — Christine and the Queens Copy Share Image
The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“If you become a writer you'll be trying to describe the ?Thing all your life: and lucky if, out of dozens of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
When we read a book, we have a blurry image that's kind of physical but blurry. But we have an emotional image… — Niels Arden Oplev Copy Share Image
Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
How can you tell? That I like books, I mean. The look on your face when you walked in, somehow I doubted… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and… — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“"I always read everything when I was a kid-and I do mean everything, from Nancy Drew to Dickens to my dad's John… — Barbara O'Neal Copy Share Image
The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“When I picked up a book that I had read many times before, the words opened themselves up again. What I was… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“If literary research is like marriage (a mind entwined with the tastes, whims, and thoughts of another for years) and ordinary reading… — Alan Kirby Copy Share Image
To live fully your well-read life -at any age- it is essential to take your selection of books seriously. When you drift… — Pat Williams Copy Share Image
Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse.… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Former CIA employee Joseph Weisberg's 'An Ordinary Spy' may attract attention for how much it redacts - whether by authorial choice or… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
