It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text. — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
Many adults that I have met in my time believed that picture books are 'babyish'. I hope I have changed minds on… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Perhaps writing only arouses the passions in order to allay them, as beaters flush out the game in order to expose it… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“The more we are willing to separate from distraction and step into the open arms of boredom, the more writing will get… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
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Well, my father Kingsley Amis was a writer and it seemed natural to start writing in my late teens. I think it… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“We are a vertically integrated publishing house that equips readers to make positive changes in their lives and in the world around… — Microcosm Publishing Copy Share Image
I have served many long and lonely years aboard ship in war zones, and the only thing that kept me sane during… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Write. Start writing today. Start writing right now. Don’t write it right, just write it -and then make it right later. Give… — Tara Moss Copy Share Image
I used to love to make things - you couldn't drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
I read and write for most of the day, but I do let myself be interrupted by real life. I enjoy going… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
What you feel when you're writing is the relief of thinking: if you write the sentence correctly, you're clarifying. If you write… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“In my junior year I discovered books. . . . Devoured [them] the way other kids did candy or sandwiches, spent days… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“It holds my essential stuff, including a book—for true contentment, one must carry a book at all times, and great books so… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and… — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
I believe that writing for me is in a way like wisdom; in that as soon as you feel like you've got… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
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I don't think I compete with myself by trying to make a better book. I don't know that that's possible. I mean,… — Jon J Muth Copy Share Image
There was a lot of great writing couples, but I try to do it all myself. And it was practically impossible, but… — Jackie DeShannon Copy Share Image
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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I've learned to really love revision over the years and worked hard to build up my craft muscle to make my revisions… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
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I ain't no author, man... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
“Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I remember when I was reading 'The Bear,' I was reading as a kid. All these years later, one returns to that… — David Milch Copy Share Image
Westlake is allusive, indirect, referential, a bit rococo, Stark strips his sentences down to the necessary information. — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
But this is an imperfect world, as actors, athletes, priests and presidents soon discover. Writers have known this from the day they… — Thomas Fleming Copy Share Image
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. — William Osler Copy Share Image
So often in English fiction, people are either upper-class twits, or else they're knockabouts, less than human. — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
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