I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you… — John Powell Copy Share Image
Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it, the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with… — James Salter Copy Share Image
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is only a moment here and a moment there that the greatest writer has. Some cognizance of the fact must be… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside. — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
“It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
I hated the idea that I would be like my father. Which is one of the reasons I decided I didn't want… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
“But I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“The art of writing tales consists in an ability to draw the rest of life from the little one has understood of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
I tend to work most often from the method of ignoring any ritualistic writing for long periods of time, and then I'll… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
Real writers-that is, capital W Writers-rarely make much money. Their biggest reward is the occasional reader's response… Commentators-in-print voicing big fat opinions-you… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I think I personally, as a writer, read differently knowing how tough it is to write, knowing how challenging it is to… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
I can’t persuade myself that one of the problems facing the planet today might be a shortage of books by me, — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
When I'm not writing, I feel an awareness that something's missing. If I go a long time, it becomes worse. I become… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect… — Robert Louis Stevenson 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
