“Booksellers in the gross are taken for little better than a pack of knaves and atheists.” — John Dunton Copy Share Image
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Old. Old is relative, girl. No, what makes them special is that they are books from history.” — Hannah Crow Copy Share Image
The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A film writer is very much like a party girl. While you're good-looking and still unlined, the possibilities seem endless. But your… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“As writing is one of the desperate professions, it has universal appeal, especially for those not engaged in it.” — WH Auden Copy Share Image
“With poetry and writing, the question isn’t “do you know the right words?”. The real question is, “can you make words from… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Rising numbers of children enjoy reading and are increasingly likely to read outside the classroom, a study has found.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The worst time in any writer's life is the two months before publication. ALL writers become mental and pathetic, even those of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. I love all of it, thinking… — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I sat staring up at a shelf in my workroom from which thirty-one books identically dressed in neat dark green leather stared… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
“She read to find out what it was like to be French or Russian in the nineteenth century, to be a rich… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Well, I think it’s extraordinarily fun to write, and I look forward to it every day, but that doesn’t mean I think… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
“The writing seemed like the books that held it; crumbly and antique and bearing the stink of centuries. Still, it was compelling.… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other” — Lance Conrad Copy Share Image
Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Every time you buy tickets on Ticketmaster, you help to digitize a book. — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can take away from it.” — James Bryce Copy Share Image
“No furniture is so charming as books, even if you never open them or read a single word.” — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
“Now as always in our history, reading is among our greatest freedoms” — The Freedom to Read Statement Copy Share Image
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was a bookworm in school, and in those days it was easy to get books. Bigger cities had book shops. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
