No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I hate to badmouth any book or writer, because I know how it feels to be on the other end of that. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
When someone asks me now, "What do you do?" I will be able to say, "I am a writer." — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Using pseudonyms was such a part of the early feminist movement. We didn't want to have this star system. We wanted attention… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading. — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The first rule is you have to create a reality that makes the reader want to come back and see what happens… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“ Ideas for Journal Entries You may find the following ideas useful in beginning your journal or keeping the entries varied. If… — Heather Moehn Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Rodrigo Garcia is a brilliant writer. He just loves women. It is evident. When you are in the presence of him you… — Naomi Watts Copy Share Image
“If it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it's useful, edible, or beautiful, into a bag,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
When you're writing is when the "god should I just drop this" feeling can hit. When you're editing is when the "god… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international. — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
“Each tombstone was like the cover of a book that had been sealed forever.” — Marina Nemat Copy Share Image
I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“In 1994, the average person spent $79 on books as compared to $56 on recorded music.” — Richard L. Brandt Copy Share Image
It's not how many books you get through, it's how many books get through you. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure. — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons. — Henry Channon Copy Share Image
This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library. — John Green Copy Share Image
Two things a novelist can do with a hat: Talk through it or pull a rabbit from it. — Peter S. Prescott Copy Share Image
Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books. — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
