When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me. — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“when people don’t have free access to books, then communities are like radios without batteries.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“A Helping Paw has been placed as Finalist in the 2019 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards” — Allan Gilmour Copy Share Image
I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I had long wanted to write a love story, and I had long - wisely, I felt - shirked the challenge because… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty high for… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“She feels "Brutal Dynasty" actually may become the Great American Novel she and her fellow critics have been looking for so long.” — Clyde Brion Davis Copy Share Image
“Each and every one of us has moments like these, times when a book becomes more than a book. It is a… — Emily Asher-Perrin Copy Share Image
Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Tobias Buckell combines old world with new in his novel CRYSTAL RAIN. While the rich cultures, drawn in part from Caribbean history… — Karin Lowachee Copy Share Image
Autobiography is the most fascinating thing you can do because you get to touch the human condition. And in the end, what… — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
“The mall looked deserted, and there was only one bulb on the ground floor to guide him to the winding staircase that… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
Before I wrote my first novel, 'The Expats,' I spent nearly two decades at various arms of publishing houses such as Random… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I really do believe that chance favours a prepared mind. Wallace Stegner, who was one of my teachers when I was at… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“The things you read will fashion you by slowly conditioning your mind.” — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Books don’t change the world, people change the world, books only change people. — Mario Quintana Copy Share Image
It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“It is better to write a bad first draft than no first draft at all.” — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
“with the book on my knee , i was happy ,i feared nothing except interruption.” — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre Copy Share Image
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“He was just a reader and readers can't do anything to make a story stop - except close the book.” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Was there anything more wonderful than sending someone home with a book you loved? No, there was not.” — Kylie Scott Copy Share Image
“Reading is what your feelings are and your feeling is what you are reading...” — Ginanjar Teguh Iman Copy Share Image
