“When you read a book, you don't give up on it. You might soon feel like your part of the story.” — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us. — Annie Barrows Copy Share Image
There's something lovely about writing a book, doing what you want. I love the solitariness of it. — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You walk into BookCon, and everybody is so excited... it's just paradise. — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“If you write about a place, you need to be right about the place!” — Laurence Bradbury Copy Share Image
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
One of the things that writers worry about is finding a voice. I don't think it's a thing that you find so… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
“Reading a book, sharing a story, is the most intimate of experiences. It's the closest that I ever come to a Vulcan… — Cathy Maxwell Copy Share Image
“It can be depressing when no one takes interest, and a lack of response makes the writer question why they’re writing at… — Lizz Clements Copy Share Image
Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Writing novels reminds me of being an awkward 15-year-old typing on a Commodore 64 in his bedroom, trying to be the next… — Duane Swierczynski Copy Share Image
If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
I'm one of those writers who started off writing novels and came to writing short stories later, partly because I didn't have… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
...for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family, and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
With a novel, you have the reader with you a lot longer, and you owe him a lot more. Obviously you have… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
When you read a book, and it's really, really beautiful, you're so engaged you forget to breathe. If you're in a car… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
“We are not told [why the girl looks at the floor] – at least not explicitly. Where other writers of the same… — into the willd Copy Share Image
It's the originality of Pauls Toutonghi's voice and vision that makes this such a remarkable novel. Toutonghi is a true daredevil of… — Skip Horack Copy Share Image
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
My partner and I weed through our bookshelves and throw stuff out regularly. — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“...spells of incarceration or exile were almost badges of honour for Enlightenment writers.” — Kate Berridge Copy Share Image
“Every book has a skeleton hidden between its covers. Your job as an analytical reader is to find it.” — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better. — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
“The reader is someone with an attention span of about 30 seconds.” — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Every book read with pleasure up to its end deserves a five star rating.” — Niovi Lyri Copy Share Image
“I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything.” — Augusta Scattergood Copy Share Image
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