Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man.… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
'Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer… — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don't think too… — Joy Fielding Copy Share Image
“Writing is like a noble gas, it expands to fit the container it is placed in. If you give me until Thursday,… — Guy Anthony De Marco Copy Share Image
“She passed her New York Reviews on to Troy without giving them a glance; she told him she thought there was something… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character... he's created himself according to his own emotions and… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
“Write what is important to you, regardless of fashion or marketability or anything like that – all those things are so far… — Celine Kiernan Copy Share Image
“I’m a husband, a father of two, a full-time teacher, and so my writing process mostly involves sitting down and writing, any… — Glen Hirshberg Copy Share Image
Harper Lee's novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' became iconic almost immediately after appearing in 1960: best-seller status; the Pulitzer Prize the next… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
I write. This is what I do. My job is to sit down with my vocabulary, select words, and decide what order… — Alan Zweibel Copy Share Image
Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
That's kind of my job in the writer's room. I'm always the guy going, like, 'People wouldn't say that there. They wouldn't… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
A writer can be identified just through his sigh, as a mouthful of words are flooded out in his single sigh. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
“He was never lonely, not with his books for company. Books never complained, never asked awkward questions.” — Martin Edwards Copy Share Image
I think the writer is always the creator, because he's starting with nothing, but the actor comes in and gives flesh and… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
But I've got a plan. Why don't you be the artist And make me out of clay. Why don't you be the… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
Public libraries are critical learning centers for New Mexicans that bring communities together, especially in our rural regions that depend on library… — Ben Ray Lujan Copy Share Image
I don't want to write the thing that I am a consumer of when I'm unconscious. I want to write the thing… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
And the books you write. They're not you. They're not me sitting here, this Henry Miller. They belong to someone else. It's… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“[Writing is] about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life as well. It's about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Insomuch as the structure of this book parallels that of my own mind, it boasts about as much order and linearity as… — Melody Moezzi Copy Share Image
You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again. — Patricia Duncker Copy Share Image
I don't think I began to be a professional writer until I learned my weaknesses and what I couldn't do. This forced… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Writing 'Fast Life' has been an incredible experience. It's something totally different from what I am used to. — Joe Jonas Copy Share Image
That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
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