The writing of 'The Ladykillers' was fun. But once it goes out of your hands it's not fun, 'especially for someone who… — Graham Linehan Copy Share Image
“Amazon isn’t happening to the book business,” he likes to say to authors and journalists. “The future is happening to the book… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. — John Locke Copy Share Image
For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
Keeping a habit, in the smallest way, protects and strengthens it. I write every day, even if it's just a sentence, to… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
In 2008, when I wrote Book 1 and Book 2, the head of the publishing house suggested twelve books - one each… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
I remember as a child I just would copy everyone else's handwriting, and now I have sort of a version of my… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious,… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
“My writing doesn’t improve if you think it’s great, and it doesn’t lessen if you think it sucks. Likewise, you not showing… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started… — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
“Someone has said of books that they are our 'amplest heritages' of thought, and so they are. That doesn't necessarily mean that… — Mary Virginia Provines Copy Share Image
Too much me is annoying under any circumstance, but too much me in an essay, however personal, would mar the art. My… — Charles D'Ambrosio Copy Share Image
To me, one of the greatest triumphs in doing a book is to tell the story as simply as possible. My aim… — Ezra Jack Keats Copy Share Image
Book collectors are thrill-seekers. It is a vegetarian hunt to be sure, without much exertion or risk, but the endorphin rush of… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
“I want my writings to inspire and awaken. I have no interest in spinning silly tales for money. I want to fish… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
Librarians are hot. They have knowledge and power over their domain...It is no coincidence how many librarians are portrayed as having a… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
“I never wanted to write for writing alone, but for the story, for the characters, and most of all for the escape.” — Kimberly Humphreys Copy Share Image
I like writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It's therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
“Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
I loved everything. I read everything. Art and poetry and literature and trash and sci fi. I didn't know what I would… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
“You have to write. You have to sit down and do it every day. Find your method, your motivation, your tenacity to… — Catherine Cruzan Copy Share Image
Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and… — Lily King Copy Share Image
It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Writing, for me at least, takes a lot of concentrated work and effort. It takes dedication and the willingness to do the… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied. — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
…books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm,… — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
I was 35, had always wanted to write novels, and thought that I had better do it while I was young enough. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I never conceived of not writing a novel. I believed - oh, God, I believed, it was an article of faith! -… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“Are we all on the same page, Delilah? The same page ? I don't even think we're even in the same library… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy. — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
“Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
