I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
“I have lived in worlds beyond counting and countries as strange and wonderful as the dance of dust in sunbeams, because I… — Garon Whited Copy Share Image
If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“... a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
When someone says to me, 'I love your book - I read it in a day,' I want to tell them to… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding… — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
There is a tendency for writers to be most exciting by whatever they just wrote. Sometimes that excitement is warranted. Sometimes on… — Stone Gossard Copy Share Image
Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
I don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Tucking my nose into a book makes me completely oblivious to my surroundings. I would have made a terrible spy in the… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“Writing is drawing the essence of what we know out of the shadows. That is what writing is about. Not what happens… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“. . .what does the computer know of the comforting weight of a book in one's lap? Or of the excitement that… — Ammon Shea Copy Share Image
Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation,… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
I spill it out as fast as I can. I don’t really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London,… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
If I wish to be well in my mind, then I must write, and there is no cure for my ambition, and… — Sally O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
David Arnold's writing is both heartfelt and hilarious. You will fall in love with Mim, even as her grand journey will keep… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, ... but they are, singly, as nothing without the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley;” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Read heavily in the area where you want to write. Be aware of what's selling and what's doing well but don't try… — Jeff Abbott Copy Share Image
Lit majors are not known for watching where they're going; most of us walk with our eyes in a book instead of… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
On the floor by my bed, there are heaps of books I want to read, books I have to read, and books… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Blood Riders is a novel like you've never read before - part Western and part horror and one-hundred percent sweet excitement. It's… — T. Jefferson Parker Copy Share Image
It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers. — Avi Copy Share Image
J.L. Moreno was a pioneer of twentieth-century theater and psychotherapy. A remarkable work, Impromptu Man should be required reading for therapists and… — Jeffrey K. Zeig Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“I wish I had a book with me, since clearly I have a lot of time on my hands. I always carry… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
“You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little like you've lost a friend.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life is a Book. Make it a Great Ending. We all have flaws, so why would life be flawless. Progress to Success!!” — Ki Allen Copy Share Image
I'm a rock climber, a high-altitude climber, an adventurer, a storyteller through my museums, and a writer of more than 50 books. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
“There is something about just setting the pen to paper that lifts me and helps to focus my energy and thoughts.” — Susan Elaine Jenkins Copy Share Image
