“I'm a big fan of the local library. I just read a book, but that's another story.” — British Sea Power Copy Share Image
I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11 — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors. — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“One of the great advantages of having a library,your eminence, is that it is full of books.” — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Instead of going home, I drove to the library. To hell with human beings. I’d always felt safer with stories than with… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is a lot like directing a movie because you are creating a world and a tone, you are creating… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
I'm strictly a one-project-at-a-time kind of guy. If I came up with a compelling idea for a different book while working on… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I want my students to love to read. Reading is not a subject. Reading is a foundation of life, an activity that… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
“I’ve always thought that books have some kind of healing power and that they can, if nothing else, provide a distraction.” — Katarina Bivald Copy Share Image
If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“The main reason to use Booki rather than a word processor to write a book is to effectively collaborate with other authors.… — James D. Simmons Copy Share Image
People think librarians are unromantic, unimaginative. This is not true. We are people whose dreams run in particular ways. Ask a mountain… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
I like reading books about kids where there weren't really many adults, where they didn't need an adult to come and solve… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I know of three ways to recognize another writer: Writers are shamelessly nosy. Writers tell good stories, even about dumb old, daily… — Joyce Thompson Copy Share Image
Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometimes you… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“With this book I hope what I always hope—that readers will nod their heads (not constantly, you know, but at the odd… — Jincy Willett Copy Share Image
In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond our reach. The best time to write is now, in the present.” — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
“Wait, I'm sorry, but how do you not read books? Like-what do you do on planes?” — Morgan Matson Copy Share Image
“It is always more helpful and more important to stop reading than to continue reading.” — Stillness Speaks by Eckart Tolle Copy Share Image
One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way. — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
I finished a big book the other day. 421 pages. That's a lot of coloring when you think about it. — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
It's understandable why someone might not want to take on a book they think is emotionally hard. — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
“My life as well as my writing are guided by creed in lieu of clichés” — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Writing, to me, conjures up a physical act, like running or eating. — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
