“You get a happy feeling helping someone read. You feel sort of like a wizard.” — Joanne Rocklin Copy Share Image
Books aren't just made of papers, pages and words. They're made of hopes, dreams and possibilities. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“why did i so passionately require the truth? because all great fiction is true” — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
If you want a transcript of tonight's program, get a pen and write down everything I said. — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
I'm not a natural reader but there are books I'll read and read again. — Sophie Thompson Copy Share Image
It took seventeen years to get from my second novel, 'Truck,' to my third, 'Geek Love.' — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Have fun writing, because it enhances both the writer's and reader's experience. — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
A Touch of Crimson explodes with passion and heat. A hot, sexy angel to die for and a gutsy heroine make for… — Cheyenne McCray Copy Share Image
I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
What I really care about is writing... Some people feel about touring the way I feel about writing, which is, 'Whoa, I… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when… — Kate Thompson Copy Share Image
“She lays the book face down on her chest. Already her bedroom (no, their bedroom) feels more densely inhabited, more actual, because… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“BUILDING A SUCCESSFUL BRAND IS CONVINCING THE FULL BELLY THAT IT IS STILL HUNGRY AND HAS ROOM FOR MORE. BE, THE MORE… — Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier Copy Share Image
“Literature...describes a descent. First, gods. Then demigods. Then epic became tragedy: failed kings, failed heroes. Then the gentry. Then the middle class… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
You try to learn who you are. You work hard. You've either got it or you don't when it comes to writing… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen,… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
Complicated Grief was written in larger and more coherent (if disparate) shapes. The question was how they fit together. The mind is… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
“Think of it: a writer actually possesses the power to alter his past, to change what was once experienced as defeat into… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
“Well, it would be helpful to not have to go through all of these in Braille," the man said. "I'm looking for… — Aubrey Rose Copy Share Image
It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
In the war time many of the publishing houses were privately owned, a single publisher or a publisher and a few associates… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“IN LIFE ONE MUST LEARN HOW TO WASH THEIR OWN BACK” — Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier Copy Share Image
