The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this… — John Redwood Copy Share Image
It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive. — George Hamilton Copy Share Image
Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel I'm a sort of cult writer, rather than a mainstream writer, in that those who like my stuff like… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Writing is a sad process, sitting on your ass for many, many hours, alone in a room, smelling like coffee, sadness and… — Amy Sherman-Palladino Copy Share Image
“Perdu reflected that it was a common misconception that booksellers looked after books. They look after people. —” — Nina George Copy Share Image
I used a video camera, and shot on film cameras at school and stuff, but I had a lot more training as… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
So much for the right books; the right use of them is another matter. The children must enjoy the book. The ideas… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
I don't answer the phone or do my email; I don't do anything until I've got the day's writing done. I have… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
I don't ever think about the utility of fiction. I don't believe in it or certainly don't require anybody to consider it.… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
I know how hard authors work on their books and how far out of their element many are when it comes to… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, 'Read,' but a writer… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don't live with a lover or roommate who doesn't respect your… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
In an age of never-ending health fads, it's comforting to learn that one of the healthiest activities you can do has existed… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“She said I owned the clothes of a radiologist and the shoes of an OBGYN; which is like the medical doctor equivalent… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey. — John Updike Copy Share Image
You can't compartmentalise everything but the more you do that the easier it is. Keeping a notebook is a good way of… — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
“Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit.” — Jeanette Winter Copy Share Image
I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book… — Ted Bell Copy Share Image
What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I have written about cultural dislocation, and I understand the corrosive effect of diminished expectations. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
“I am not as valuable as the books, I AM the books! They are a part of me I cannot delete or… — Whitney L. Grady Copy Share Image
My little book of stories, 'Souls in the Twiligh,' may have to stand in for all the other things I have wanted… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“The library is the worst group of people ever assembled in history. They're mean, conniving, rude, and extremely well-read, which makes them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and… — Clark Zlotchew Copy Share Image
Eventually the writing takes time. What I want to do is get the story down and I want to know what happens… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Power in praise or mountain that move is a nice book bec not only reading it after you read when you put… — Merlin Carothers Copy Share Image
I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being where I am today. I… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
“Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!” — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
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