“Isn't it silly to talk of books as if they were just print and paper, when they are really stars and seas… — Zephine Humphrey Copy Share Image
My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Whatever a writer gets paid for his book, it's never enough. I think that's true. It's hard work. But in the end,… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
'Walking and Talking' is my autobiography. It's best to do it that way, rather than spend months writing a book that then… — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of… — S. R. Ranganathan Copy Share Image
I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of writing; the one you write and the one that writes you. The one that writes you is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“All of us are writers reading other people's writing, turning pages or clicking to the next screen with pleasure and admiration. All… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
He that loves a book will never want a [close] friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study,… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“There is a problem with writers. If what a writer wrote was published and sold many, many copies, the writer thought he… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“Choosing a book is so gratifying, it’s worth dragging out the process, starting even before finishing the current one. As the final… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
My routine is to create activities for myself unrelated to writing that allow little time for writing. This means that when I… — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight.… — Carolyn Cooke Copy Share Image
I was elated when I found out my first novel, 'Leaving Patrick,' about a woman who walks out on her husband, was… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
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There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
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I've read your summary." "And?" "It's not incompetent." Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. "Did you… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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“you see book is like a machine if it don't have gas it can't start just like our brain without book we… — Kelly Elysee Copy Share Image
The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers. — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
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I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
I honestly turned to writing because I didn't know what else to do, and because a friend had gently suggested it. — Emily Susan Rapp Copy Share Image
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The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien. — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
“About writing:The trick is to make sure you love what you've produced--to Believe..in order to convince.” — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
Everything I write goes through a lot of drafts. A hundred rewrites is not unusual for me to go through - the… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
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