“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you” — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find… — Sara Gilbert Copy Share Image
“...But what is it all about, what am I trying to do, is there a message? Nobody knows, and I certainly don't.… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Popper and Nabokov are very different people in some ways - and I'm ready to devote large chunks of my life to… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
“We had often read the same books at night in the same bed, and later realized that they had touched us in… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Go to the bookstore and look at how many bookshelves are filled with books trying to explain how to work the devices.… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“From the moment I own a book, even before I open it to the first page, I feel that it has in… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“The librarian, a tiny blonde twenty-something in a Riot grrrl T-shirt, looked up from her desk and smiled. Don’t let anyone tell… — Helen Callaghan Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
“By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain in the course of a twelve-month a great deal of instruction which I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Want to be a writer? take a good book a good pen and a notepad to bed with you every night of… — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
Because if someone writes something and they have decided this is what it is, it's my job to make it work unless… — Eoin Macken Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room,… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book,… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast and go… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
“If I have ever brought you a book unasked for , know that I cared. I said everything to you that I… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
I do consider myself a Norwegian writer, or a Scandinavian writer, as my family tree reaches into both Denmark and Sweden. I… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Sometimes you find yourself digging around for something useful, and you don't necessarily know what it is until you find it. Sometimes… — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Every Moment of your life is a new Page in your Book. Some Sentences you can’t change, even whole Pages. But you… — John M. Eaton Copy Share Image
I quit law in 1988 to start writing, and it took me 17 years from that point to get a book contract.… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
It gives me confidence to know that what I'm writing has a veracity of its own without me having to invent it.… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
All religious books should b burnt..coz they teach us 2 b gud in a certain month..lyk ramadan n aasthmi sum of my… — Raveen Copy Share Image
“People keep asking me ...How to instantly become a better writer? It’s simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“There are twenty-six letters in the alphabet. A writer's task is to arrange them into sentences telling a unique story with guts,… — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
