The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the number of Books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone… — Alain De Botton Copy Share Image
“To be in the middle of composing a book is almost always to feel oneself in a state of confusion, doubt and… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think the cover of a book as a door to another world...but other times I think of it as an… — Tom McNeal Copy Share Image
Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
“I'm telling you, writing the book is easy. The after part will break your back. Not to mention your heart.” — Suzy Soro Copy Share Image
I am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
It is well known that, when two authors meet, they at once start talking about money-like everyone else. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
“ Ideas for Journal Entries You may find the following ideas useful in beginning your journal or keeping the entries varied. If… — Heather Moehn Copy Share Image
“If it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it's useful, edible, or beautiful, into a bag,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
When you're writing is when the "god should I just drop this" feeling can hit. When you're editing is when the "god… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“But my mother was aglow. She had a continuing fascination with celebrities, and now she had one of her own. She was… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“The serious writer has always taken the flaw in human nature for his starting point, usually the flaw in an otherwise admirable… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“but the fact is that New York is as much a myth as a place, and because we all participate in that… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Constant reading will pull you into a place - a mind-set, if you like the phrase - where you can write eagerly… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Every time you think of escaping mentally or physically, grab the book that lies inches away from your heart.” — Muna Adnan Naqi Copy Share Image
The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the… — Norman Rush Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school,… — Jarrett J. Krosoczka Copy Share Image
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A book's alright when the weather's foul and there's nothing else to do, but why sit and read when the wind is… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
If most writers are honest with themselves, this is the difference they want to make: before, they were not noticed; now they… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Those of us we have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous extension of our being which we owe… — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
I just try to write literally what I love. That's usually the barometer that I use. As trite as it sounds, I'm… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy,… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
“So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I always loved books. I don't remember learning to read, it was just something I always did. I was hungry for knowledge,… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan,… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Sad that there is books that are based on bad events that has happened. But there is books that has been based… — Dawn Huntsman Copy Share Image
Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be… — John Waters Copy Share Image
The incessant driving of the pen over paper causes intense fatigue of the hand and the whole arm because of the continuous… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image
The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
