Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Reading a book takes you on a journey without leaving the current place you are in.” — LaShonna Dyson Copy Share Image
“Books are like imprisoned souls until someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
“Books! And cleverness! There are more important things — friendship and bravery and —” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention. — Candice Bergen Copy Share Image
I admire writers who can remain objective and distanced, but that doesn't seem to be in my toolbox somehow. I have to… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services,… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If writers write, then rangers range. And I’d like to wake up every morning and be a mother, so I could eat… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support sustem. (...) She read to discover how not to be Charlotte, how… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was:… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Even if you are lucky enough to sell a trilogy, you don't know if you'll ever get to write that whole trilogy.… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“It's a supernatural library filled with unfinished ghost stories, written by ghosts, where time has no meaning , and the Boogeyman wants… — D.J. MacHale Copy Share Image
I used to have weird practices in crowded used-book stores in New York where I'd go in and just stomp my foot… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
“Reading may be the last secretive behavior that is neither pathological or prosecutable. It is certainly the last refuge from the real-time… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline...The motion of the… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
I like writing with people. I think the times that I've closed myself off to not writing with people, I haven't gotten… — Noah Cyrus Copy Share Image
