The books that matter to me...are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself. — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
And to all of you, what it really comes down to is: If you're buying a book with my name on it,… — Peter David Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a book - say I'm going to write a parenting book. I'll go out and buy the 100 top… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
I always think it would be so nice to go to the beach and sit and write in my journal, but it… — Sandra Oh Copy Share Image
I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“It is possible, with lots of hard work, dedication, and timely help, to make a good writer out of a merely competent… — Nat Greene Copy Share Image
The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
“Heavy is the head that holds the pen of creation. We construct these characters from nothing, molding them from our imaginations. We… — Jennifer A. Marsh Copy Share Image
“It is wrong, then, to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences (like the meeting of Anna, Vronsky, the railway… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Learning to write is not a linear process. There is no logical A-to-B-to-C way to become a good writer. One neat truth… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
I find it very difficult to talk about unwritten works. It's never useful to start putting words casually around the flimsiest of… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“But I liked the writing better. I could make it look beautiful. I could keep it. The spoken words just went out… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Things just kind of stick with me, and writing, for me, is always an investigation into my own feelings about them. I… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
“how weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Writing about my life was a 13-year process where I had to face my demons as I wrote and take the time… — Dominique Jackson Copy Share Image
If J.K. Rowling stopped after being turned down by multiple publishers for years, there would be no Harry Potter. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The whole of Sheffield seems to be crazy about books. There are festivals and their own book awards, and their own children's… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Book Everything is Flammable is an odd format though, not quite a diary and not quite a memoir. I was working on… — Gabrielle Bell Copy Share Image
Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key… — John Huston Copy Share Image
Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
“Thereis no such thing as amoral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying. I was 4 or 5 or… — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I just put off the writing until later in the day, but now I write early every morning… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
“the whole point of literature, I think, is that it’s the best technology we have for communicating what another person’s life feels… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I write quickly with a sense of urgency. I don't edit myself out of existence, meaning I'll try to write 50 or… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“She is the founder and owner of Luft Books, an independent publishing company, and the author of Bias Cut, Lonely” — Morgan Richter Copy Share Image
Sweetie, if you opened a book more times than you opened your legs,you might actually get somewhere in life. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
