I genuinely miss writing now on the rare days I don't write; my mouth waters when I think about writing, and I… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“You know what a publisher is? He’s a failed writer whose father was rich enough that he’s able to appropriate other people’s… — Joël Dicker Copy Share Image
Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it.… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Writers find common ground not through the homelands they once inhabited but the thematic questions with which they grapple. — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
I still use felt tip pens for my notes, on a white board that I carry around with me. I am not… — John Motson Copy Share Image
When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
“Bookaholics are the ones who start to feel uncomfortable and uneasy in another person’s house, and suddenly realize there are no bookshelves… — Robert Lee Hadden Copy Share Image
“At this point, there is no human way that I could read even those books I've deliberately marked as absolute must-reads. [… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I understand the fear that by losing contact with books on the printed page, we're somehow surrendering some aspect of our humanity,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To become a writer a person must read constantly, the more varied the writers and their material then all the better. One… — Andrew James Pritchard Copy Share Image
We all need each other in publishing to make publishing work for authors in a variety of formats now and in the… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Through my writing, I have made new friends and continued to learn about this world of ours in all its wonder, with… — Sonia Levitin Copy Share Image
“Sidda can't help herself, She just loves books. Loves the way they feel, the way they smell, loves those black letters marching… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
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“Honestly...this is why I write. I write to get the happy ending I sometimes feel is eluding me. I write for my… — Debora Dennis Copy Share Image
“If we place the books randomly, how are they ever found again?' She smiled. "The books just seem to know to go… — Sean Ferrell Copy Share Image
“ Like all men of the Library, I have traveled in my youth; I have wandered in search of a book, perhaps… — José Borges Copy Share Image
The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It's very unlikely that a writer is going to make a living by writing. So then the question is: how do you… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
This book blew me away. Kelly Parra writes with the keen eye of an artist. Graffiti Girl is warm, gutsy, and true-to-life… — Anne Frasier Copy Share Image
“Writing is so much more productive when it is set on fire, for then and only then can you feel the passion… — Jennifer Megan Varnadore Copy Share Image
In some ways I'm a reticent man, and for quite a number of years there wasn't very much of my real true… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
“If peace had a smell, he thought, it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.” — Mark Pryor Copy Share Image
“I'm writing the next novel in the Thanatology series, entitled the Lurking Man... Thank God for erasers.” — Keith Rommel Copy Share Image
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Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have… — George A. Moore Copy Share Image
Snoop is a tour de force! It’s one of the smartest and most original books I’ve come across in a long time.… — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
“It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--might find a… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image