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
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
“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
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 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
What makes a good editor is staying the hell out of the way as much as possible. ... If you're a DC… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money,… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a… — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“Readers of a certain class are apt to call good the plot of that story in which "you can't tell what is… — Arnold Bennett 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
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
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
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
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
“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
Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so… — Karin Tidbeck 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
I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family. — Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Copy Share Image
I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
If a reader likes a particular author, they keep reading all his books, and if the supply is not kept up, then… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
We've all been children, we all know a parent or parent-figure. This makes us all potential writers of children's books. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
A startling confession for a food writer: all through high school, I struggled with a severe eating disorder. — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many… — Patrick Carman Copy Share Image
“I have bad news to tell you two poor boys have died at stonyhurst within the last 3 weeks from getting croup.… — Jon Lellenberg Copy Share Image
