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Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself. — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books! — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Are there any books of that sort nowadays? The only ones I ever see mentioned in the papers are about married couples… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed… — Paolo Maldini Copy Share Image
People who want to express themselves effectively can learn a lot from the hard-won concision of the copywriter. — David Droga Copy Share Image
I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a… — Ben Richards Copy Share Image
The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is such a powerful book, and 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is so… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
I have always thought of myself as a writer, only because I need things to direct, and I can't not write the… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
“The only customers they'd get on a day like this were lunatics -- well, lunatics and hopeless romantics with a fetish for… — Katherine Pine Copy Share Image
For right now, I'd like to tell stories that I want to tell. I haven't wanted to use someone else's material yet,… — Jason Momoa Copy Share Image
Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery.… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing -… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I write because, exacting as it may be to do so, it is still more difficult to refrain, and because - however… — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends,… — Alexander Trocchi Copy Share Image
Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
