“(this is before we're living together, before we do the most faithful act of all, mix our separate books into one library)” — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it. — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
Remember: A best-selling book usually follows a simple rule, It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told; not, It's a wonderfully told story. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences -… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
You know, it really doesn't matter what (the media) write as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
Now the truth is, writing is a great way to deal with a lot of difficult emotional issues. It can be very… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to give any book an inspectional reading without being alert, without having all of one's faculties awake and working.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life is too short to read books whose cleverness makes them impenetrable. A good book should keep you awake at night, flickering… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
“He's doing some kind of demony witch-craft (demoncraft?), and there is someone's blood all over the place, and do evil murdering demon… — Michelle Knudsen Copy Share Image
“What is so frightening about [writing]? I still don't know. Perhaps it's the horrible knowledge that no matter how well you write,… — Brenda Miller Copy Share Image
I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country… — Anne Rivers Siddons Copy Share Image
I try not to repeat a story. I try not to repeat an emotion. I want it to be all sort of… — Michael Patrick King Copy Share Image
There are infimal readers, readers who want to read the same book over and over, but will never read the same book… — Brian Stableford Copy Share Image
Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration.… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea of a book being a test or being used for a test. The way - in my… — Avi Copy Share Image
“I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is… — Zaeema J. Hussain Copy Share Image
Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“In the library I was handed a blueprint on how to live the mysterious, unnamable, big dream life I wanted. I was… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve… — Eliza Leslie Copy Share Image
SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
From 2001-2008, I was the host and a writer for the WB's weekly television program 'Weddings Portland Style.' — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
“My hiatus is over, my soul and body are healed, but I will never leave the purple chair for long. So many… — Nina Sankovitch Copy Share Image
A librarian is not a legal process. There is not librarian in the country unless she or he is a lawyer who… — Judith Krug Copy Share Image
“If you must slander someone, don't speak it - but write it - write it in the sand, near the water's edge!” — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“What's the point in being smart enough to read, if everything you read makes you dumb?" - Fatts - Coffee and Sugar” — C. Sean McGee Copy Share Image
If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“In every person there lies a book that can be enjoyed by others only by escaping through the lips or finger tips.”… — Jim Conover Copy Share Image
One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously. — Carole Maso Copy Share Image
For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
When it comes to e-book playback devices and software, I have always thought that the emphasis on ergonomic concerns as a tipping… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
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