“Habits of an empowerED teacher: “read, notice, think, make theories about how writing works, imagine possibilities, write yourself; it isn’t magic, it’s… — Penny Kittle Copy Share Image
A good book is like a seed: it produces fruit that has in it seed for more fruit. It is not a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white. — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“Do the math correctly 226 Pages book = 3 days = 150 Pages each day 50 pages... or 4x50 250... ... 4 Days 50 pages ... Math = Life Life = Math” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
“to great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
As a writer, you sit around a computer all day, and it's too easy to open another tab and keep Rotten Tomatoes… — Evan Daugherty Copy Share Image
To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and… — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
“It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Writing: shitty first drafts. Butt in chair. Just do it. You own everything that happened to you. You are going to feel… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“He is a very senior member of faculty; has an added degree in Computer Science; a supposed scholar; addicted to Google and… — David N. Ofili Copy Share Image
I don't go to an office, so I write at home. I like to write in the morning, if possible; that's when… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“I think there have been a lot of writers who’ve been experimenting lately with really sprawling novels that will deal with a… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“To leave a novel unfinished, is to leave the characters stranded. They become helpless abiding in their own fear, pain, conflict, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing, to me, is like kayaking a river. You are paddling down, and you come to a walled-off canyon, and you make… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
“The institution that had the greatest effect on Berenson's education was the Boston public library, the first in the country that allowed… — Rachel Cohen Copy Share Image
Within the realm of fiction, it is always tempting to set one's stories in a dystopian future, where all our misgivings about… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So… — Don Novello Copy Share Image
“The problem of the librarian is that books are multi-dimensional in their subject matter but must be ordered on one-dimensional shelves.” — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I could've wrote down every thought I've been thinking to myself all this past year, but would it stand out? Woah, I… — The Ready Set Copy Share Image
“The book identifies you as part of the tribe. On the opposite extreme, there are people who will walk up to you… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways,… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
“People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you” — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find… — Sara Gilbert Copy Share Image
“My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The extraordinary thing about inventing a persona is that one is loathe to give it up, especially if the fiction sits comfortably.” — Gita Mehta Copy Share Image
“She dreamed of a world where books did not rot or give way to green blot, where words and ideas were not… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
