We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
I rather envy writers who do variations on a theme. I like reading those books, but in practice, I can't do it. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“Writing without responsibility is like taking out your cloths in public and begging people to not look at you.” — M.F.Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading old books. — George F Will Copy Share Image
“What is your dissertation, Ilana Davita?” “Babel and Camus: Twists of Fate and Faith. Babel’s The Red Cavalry and Camus’s The Stranger.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“That day I saw you at the library, after we talked at the bus stop. That day I saw you at the… — Jay McLean Copy Share Image
The Bodleian Library, next to the Sheldonian, is one of the great libraries of the world. As well as holding most of… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
“In Trout's novel, The Pan-Galactic Memory Bank, the hero is on a space ship two hundred miles long and sixty-two miles in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I think all those years that I spent as a nurse, from the age of seventeen, just allowed me an insight into… — Christie Watson Copy Share Image
If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I'm always amazed by those people who get up at 5 and write till 8 and then eat a peach and walk… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
Throughout my life, there's just periods when I write and periods when I don't. I don't feel like anything's really blocked. It's… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
I am passionate about reading, for myself and for kids. Our future as a compassionate, productive, healthy society is rooted in our… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Stella scribbled in thick black texta across half the pages of my best storybook, filled with people who ventured where their hearts… — Emma Cameron Copy Share Image
I like to think - knowing that it's an enabling fiction - of those moments as fragments from a world to come,… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library.” — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
I had a Kindle for a brief while, but I dropped it in the ocean, and that was the end of electronic… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking… — Martha Grimes Copy Share Image
Like a musician expresses himself through music and a writer's expression is in his writings, cooking is my mode of expression. — Ranveer Brar Copy Share Image
I write just knowing that I enjoy writing. But if I have to write, it seems like nothing comes. But when I… — Andrae Crouch Copy Share Image
Yeah, I think it's like any God-given gift. You writers have the gift of perception. If you don't use it, you're going… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
To aspiring writers, I say : Don't give up. Storytelling has been an integral part of the human condition since the beginning… — Beverly Jenkins Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living … — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I had to have experience, you know what I mean? Because I've been doing this since I was 14... I couldn't write… — MNEK Copy Share Image
In Iceland, book lives matter in every sense of that phrase: The shelf-life of the book, the lives in the book, the… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
“You’re also finding out something as you read that will be vitally important for making your way in the world. And it’s… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I was very anxious when I was writing 'Oscar And Lucinda.' I would take other books off the shelf to check my… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
There are twenty-four characters in this book named Max. Let there be an end to this silly business of authors never giving… — Max Shulman Copy Share Image
“Books are one thing I love above all else. In a story, I can become anyone, travel any place. In those pages… — Sherry D. Ficklin Copy Share Image
The biggest achievement is to create silence. I think every real writer who has a passion to do justice to the world… — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
Pico Iyer describes his writing as "intimate letters to a stranger," and I think that is what the writing process is. It… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
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