“The object of all good literature is to purge the soul of its petty troubles.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
It's very easy for a writer to spend much too much time in her head. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
“Unlike baked beans, loaves of breads, or Fuji apples, books, once consumed, do not disappear.” — John Sutherland Copy Share Image
I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on. — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
Sometimes people ask, 'If you'd never had a reader, would you carry on writing?' No. — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
“Reading is like therapy; the characters are the therapist, their world is their office, and the adventures are the sessions.” — Jordan Bowers Copy Share Image
I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the… — Andrea Arnold Copy Share Image
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Friends are animated books. They are a completely delightful, absolutely painless means of continuing one's education. — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
“Let's go downtown," Dad said. "By the public library. You never know what wild and crazy things might be happening at the… — Marion Jensen Copy Share Image
It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
If you're having trouble finishing a book, it might be that you're trying to fix it as you go. Just finish the… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
“Some books are like chewing gum. They have just enough flavour to sate you for an hour or so. Others are like… — Xio Axelrod Copy Share Image
“Leatherbound books are an expensive form of wallpaper, and yet every English nobleman’s home seems to have had them. Their endless sets… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
“I often think publishing a book is like doing a poo. Once it's ready for the world, you have to relinquish that… — H.O. Charles Copy Share Image
Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you… — Lily King Copy Share Image
I spend months, sometimes years, doing what I call dreamtime, weaving it together inside my head. But when I actually feel that… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“As a writer, you often feel invisible. No one is waiting for what you are writing; life goes on as you sit… — James Morris Copy Share Image
I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I was told that my best-case scenario would likely consist of writing my memoir and then disappearing. — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
“a truth does not take too long to tell, only a fiction requires so much thought” — Tami Hoag Copy Share Image
“the good end happily, the bad end unhappily -- that is what 'fiction' means.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. — P. J. Harvey Copy Share Image
I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine. — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Good books should be an overwhelming assault upon the personality.” — Steffan Piper Copy Share Image
The different books I read till now seems to look Total waste, When I put my first step in Real Life.ª — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
