“I have learned through dreams more wisdom, than by reading hundreds of books.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally. — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important. — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
“A person who can read and doesn't, is no better off than a person who can't read.” — Alton Carter Copy Share Image
“The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about. — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Writing is like being in a dream state or under self-directed hypnosis. It induces a state of recall that - while not… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed. — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
“Oh, it doesn't get me. I'm pretty well cloistered, and I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or… — John Updike Copy Share Image
If you have other things in your life-family, friends, good productive day work-these can interact with your writing and the sum will… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within us… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
My elementary school teachers were big on pushing kids to read. If you read a certain amount of books, they would provide… — Rey Mysterio Copy Share Image
Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“The good thing about books is that they remain themselves. What happens in their pages stays there. Harriet does not like the… — Helen Humphreys Copy Share Image
“Who wants to become a writer? And why? ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build… — Enid Bagnold Copy Share Image
No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I argued strongly to the American publisher that 'Reality Hunger' should come out first. They thought that 'The Thing About Life' would… — David Shields Copy Share Image
This is a much more fitting interpretation of the book than its modern interpretation. — Robert Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of a good book.” — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“I am a writer because I write, an author because I create, a poet because the words are in my soul.” — Wesley D. Gray Copy Share Image
The library is…a university of the people, from which the students are never graduated. — Katharine Sharp Copy Share Image
If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer! — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. — Martin Lewis Perl Copy Share Image
A singer knows how he wants the song to go, and a writer visualizes how he wants the song to go. — Dennis Edwards Copy Share Image
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
