I was trained to serve the writer and director as an actor before I serve myself. Not to say that's gotten in… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
“I’m a librarian, not a leader.” “You’re both! Librarians and archeologists have always been the ones to bring civilization back.” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me,… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part. — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
Once I started to write, it was like all the lights came on. I was always making up stories in my head.… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
“Jahrling sat down at his desk and sighed. There was a landfill of papers on his desk, mostly about smallpox, and it… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
“Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“When reading a book, one hopes it doesn’t turn into a painful process. Predictable is bad enough. Laborious is acceptable if the… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
I love the beautiful distractions of the world - television and movies, video games, the Internet in general. But I try really… — Nick Petrie Copy Share Image
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
Early on in life I knew that I was a writer, that I just wanted to write, I love books, I love… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
With a novel, you have to have a story. It's much more important to have it matter to the reader what happens… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
'M Train' will take you in and out of dreamscapes and reality and remembrances with prose so spare and matter-of-fact that it… — Wendi McLendon-Covey Copy Share Image
It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In an era where Existence is incontestable, Truth is subjective, and Reality is perceived, fiction must mediate between the three.” — Henry Martin Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
If you want to be a Roman Catholic scholar and write, you've got to write in such a way that nobody understands… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“That would make it the fifth time since I'd started working at the university that I'd thrown someone out of one of… — Samantha Young Copy Share Image
“A child has no need to write, he is innocent. A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I write - so it would seem - to recapture, to preserve and return to the past, though I might just as… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
[Andre] Gide can say it to me: it is a writer's morality only addressed to a few privileged people. For that reason… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“am merely mourning that so many good or lively books are dead so soon, or only imperfectly kept alive in the cheap… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“If we are inspired only by literature that reflects our own interests, all reading becomes a form of narcissism.” — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I usually am thinking about my next book the second I put the last dot on the previous one that I turn… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is… — James H. Billington Copy Share Image
“Over a hundred German scientists arrived here [Huntsville] at eleven o’clock on an April morning and by nightfall more than sixty had… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs. — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
My office-hour reading is fairly ad hoc: I generally read whatever seems relevant to what I'm editing, writing, or thinking about writing. — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
My job is to entertain the readers in such a manner that, when they reach the end of the book, they feel… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
“During my convalescence I had bought and read for the first time, The King in Yellow. I remember after finishing the first… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Years ago, the writers were telling me that I'd make the Hall of Fame, so I kind of prepared a speech. But… — Johnny Mize Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
“...entered the library, and could do nothing but stare in wonder...She wondered if she should curtsy as if she were entering a… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
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