“The record store was a place of escape. It was a library and a clubhouse” - Cameron Crowe quoted” — Gary Calamar Copy Share Image
“For knowledge to be digested, it must be absorbed with relish," wrote Anatole France.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. It's always a little bittersweet, too. — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years. — Nancy Jo Sales Copy Share Image
Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years! — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help. — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“There are good books, indifferent books, and bad books. Amongst the good books some are honest, inspiring, moving, prophetic and improving. But… — Vernon Sproxton Copy Share Image
But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have a process that I seem to always, to some degree, as a writer, adhere to, but I certainly have never… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The day after the assignation with Barstad, the low stacked-heels of Charlotte Neumann, an ordained Episcopalian priest, author of New Art Modalities:… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“A good speed reading course should therefore teach you to read at many different speeds, not just one speed that is faster… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
Nobody becomes a writer overnight. Well, I'm sure somebody did, but that person's head probably went all asplodey from paroxysms of joy,… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
