“Reading lets our mind visit new exciting worlds" ~Vianka Van Bokkem” — Vianka Van Bokkem Copy Share Image
I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
“No one knows the scent of books, or the scent of perfume, until someone opens them.” — Omaid Ahmadzai Copy Share Image
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it. — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Writing was always something I had. I need this to survive when I'm empty, and losing my mind. My pain is in… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens. — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
I think that when memoir goes wrong, it goes wrong from too much memory, too much detail. It's about clearing all that… — Tara Westover Copy Share Image
The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“Emotional upheavals touch every part of our lives. You don’t just lose a job, you don’t just get divorced. These things affect… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“If I am alive this is my book, and my father lives now in the afterlife that is a book, a thing… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
“I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
One of the things that I tell beginning writers is this: If you describe a landscape, or a cityscape, or a seascape,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
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