I encourage people to read by encouraging them to read whatever they want. — Jane Cleland Copy Share Image
“I don't even know what a room without books looks like.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
“I let myself play in an unbounded world of creations on the glorious written page whenever I desire.” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate. — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I feel like if writers used writing as therapy we'd have a ton of happy writers. — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Find tricks to keep yourself going,” William Least Heat Moon once advised a group of aspiring writers. “Anything you can do to… — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
“Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read… — Erika Johansen Copy Share Image
If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it — Garry Marshall Copy Share Image
“Writing is a conduit. It opens up a passageway into the past. Not just for the writer, but for the reader too.… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for… — Arthur Hailey Copy Share Image
I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing. — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
For me, writing is really an agony. I feel as if I have a huge, luminous idea that has the potential to… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
“Many times when I read a book, I want to savor each word, each phrase, each page, loving the prose so much,… — Lisa Schroeder Copy Share Image
Literature ultimately helps one to ground a deeper and wider outlook. An over-directed life without the inner resource to step outside of… — Gwee Li Sui Copy Share Image
“I wake up and read although Nietzsche says that’s foolish. A sort of narcotic, reading. I read with my hands down the… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“In her autobiographical Giving Up the Ghost (2003), Hilary Mantel reveals: “I have always been addicted to something or other, usually something… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write. — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“That one special book that takes you on a trip you never expected to go on...” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win. — Adam Young Copy Share Image
“Get your deprived, samall-town, romance-novel reading mind out of of the gutter, Becky.” — Maureen A. Miller Copy Share Image
Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's a slow process rewriting your own life in your head. I think that's a writerly thing. — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
I report as a machine; I write as a person. That clear dichotomy softens the transition. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte has been my all-time favorite book since I was in middle school. — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“Writing is one-third imagination, one-third experience, and one third observation.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
