“Suddenly, everything was beautiful. The way she viewed the world was nothing more but a reflection of herself.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Life's harder, the deeper you feel things, was all I could think as I put the books away. Feelings, who needs them?… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“It took me awhile to learn the rules. OK, it took the librarian in me weeks of careful obsessive research to learn… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the… — David Pogue Copy Share Image
“The fear of loving a dog, is knowing one day they’ll be gone and you could never find eyes that express all… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
“Should you care to write (and only the saints know why you should) you must needs have knowledge and art and magic… — Kahil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Anything worth reading is not only worth reading twice, but worth reading again and again. If a book is worthwhile, then you… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
In memoir, can you really tell the truth about yourself? You're not going to write about your little peccadilloes, like, "I like… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
They say there is no 'free lunch' in life. But there are free books! I still can't believe I can go to… — Dan Gutman Copy Share Image
“Maybe she needed more library time in her life. More hushed time among rows of books waiting to be accidently discovered, rather… — Karen Doornebos Copy Share Image
I'm writing out of desperation. I felt compelled to write to make sense of it to myself - so I don't end… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Some will think your writing is genius. Some will think it juvenile. What's important is that you, the writer, are satisfied with… — D Michael Hardy Copy Share Image
I took delight in hurling books across the room if I knew I would not be reading the second chapter. Then I’d… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“A book is a vacation for the mind. My books will take you inside my mind, so feel free to make yourself… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The conventional wisdom is that authors get only one chance in this world. If your first novel doesn't sell, publishers and bookstores… — Jeff Giles Copy Share Image
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“I read a lot of bad books- books so bad that they aren't even published,which is quite a feat, when you consider… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I write on scraps of paper. I do it every other day. I write about people's lives or how people look or… — Tommy Wiseau Copy Share Image
“Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it… — Janna Malamud Smith Copy Share Image
There must be every kind of books in your library. The most beautiful gardens are those with many different flowers, with all… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book. — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
“That, indeed, the Home Front is something of a fiction and lie, designed, not too subtly, to draw them apart, to subvert… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul.… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
When people, women included, hear that you are writing, they assume that it is simply a hobby to fill in the time… — Rachel Billington Copy Share Image
My test for writing is always, is this fun or does it feel like a job? Is it moving me? Or am… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Books most certainly don't write themselves, but life does. When in doubt about what to write, use your own life.” — Solomon Woytowich Copy Share Image
“Writers need their writing; they need their imaginary worlds in order to find piece in, or make sense of, the real world.” — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
On Saturdays, I get up early, spread out my notes from the week on the kitchen table, and create stories from them. — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“Add books to your circle of friends: they will enrich your life; take you places you’ve never been; give you perspective you… — J Tan Copy Share Image
I have to have a story I really want to tell, and then it makes sense to put things out there. So… — Zoya Akhtar Copy Share Image
