My mom would keep all kinds of materials in her classroom for children for reading. She kept comic books, newspapers, sports magazines,… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
My favorite sports novel is End Zone by Delillo. It's such a great looking book too, the black cover with the football… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
My mom was a librarian, so I spent most of my childhood in libraries, learning to love their potential for imagination and… — Amelia Dimoldenberg Copy Share Image
It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind,… — Klaus Kinski Copy Share Image
“... the bestselling novel taking the Ankh-Morpork literary world by storm was dedicated to Commander Samuel Vimes. The title of the book… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I am in the house of nouns here, and it fills me with the conviction that good books sometimes give: that life… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
“What does reading do, You can learn almost everything from reading, But I read too, So you must know something, Now I'm… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“One of the questions I hear most often regarding my plan to read the OED from cover to cover is "Why don't… — Ammon Shea Copy Share Image
“Even today it’s not uncommon to find teachers who believe that if a child can’t take a pen in hand and write… — Sally A. Spencer Copy Share Image
Maybe this is pathetic, but I still dread producing a book that doesn't earn back its advance. I hate obligations that are… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
“When hypocrites force me to shut my mouth, I write. But if there's no stationaries at all, I'll write on ground.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
The world of literature is so rich and so enriching. The value is inestimable of what reading does for you. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“As someone else once said, "Write what you know". Well I know very little, so I write, and illustrate, Nonsense.” — Paul H Tubb Copy Share Image
A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender… — Kiki Dimoula Copy Share Image
“The books beside my bed are like the expensive, and suspiciously unsullied, pair of running shoes in the cupboard: an aspiration, and… — Richard Lloyd Parry Copy Share Image
Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
A lot of people get writer's block, and I think you just have to show up for work, sit down, and be… — Brian Fallon Copy Share Image
“Every time I went to the library, it felt like a treasure hunt: somewhere amid those dusty books was the answer, and… — Jean M. Twenge Copy Share Image
“A writer is lost when he grows interested in such questions as 'what is art?' and 'what is an artist's duty?” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, Sir Kevin, one… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“There are those who cannot imagine a world without birds; there are those who cannot imagine a world without water; but in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you are writing, and aren't writing particularly well.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world. — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
“As writers we have the profound privilege and responsibility to create a new world when the current one takes a turn for… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
“If anything one writes isn't still being talked about ten years later then it wasn't worth writing in the first place.” — Howard Hinton Copy Share Image
You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall… — Aldus Manutius Copy Share Image
“I do my writing in the morning, now, if the boy will let me, and in the afternoon when I’m not teaching,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
“There are many premium writers, yes? Tolstoy, yes? He wrote War , and also Peace , which are both premium books.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.” — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
