I was lucky enough to be a child during the renaissance of Australian children's literature, when people like Ivan Southall, Colin Thiele,… — Catherine Jinks Copy Share Image
“When people say they don’t read, I always wonder if they don’t because they can’t or because they won’t. Then I think,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I remember when I was reading 'The Bear,' I was reading as a kid. All these years later, one returns to that… — David Milch Copy Share Image
Westlake is allusive, indirect, referential, a bit rococo, Stark strips his sentences down to the necessary information. — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
But this is an imperfect world, as actors, athletes, priests and presidents soon discover. Writers have known this from the day they… — Thomas Fleming Copy Share Image
“Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Like dreaming, reading performs the prodigious task of carrying us off to other worlds. But reading is not dreaming because books, unlike… — Victor Null Copy Share Image
I did not consider that I would lead a literary life. I'd thought initially, as a young girl, that I would be… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
One thing I like about writing is that it provides such a wonderful opportunity for confidential chats with readers. In the privacy… — Ralph Keyes Copy Share Image
“Angels and demons, vampires and lycans, all set against an inventive, intriguing story world that hooked me from the first page. Balancing… — Lara Adrian Copy Share Image
“In fact, ladies and gentlemen, I have never read any good book that was not related intimately to at least a score… — Maurice Francis Egan Copy Share Image
I'm asked all the time, 'Doesn't it feel great to finish the novel?' And the answer to that is, 'No.' It's sort… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
So often in English fiction, people are either upper-class twits, or else they're knockabouts, less than human. — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. — William Osler Copy Share Image
To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the… — Timothy Healy Copy Share Image
Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were. — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
“The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I tried to lift the book in a kind of salute, but it was way too heavy for that. In fact,when I… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
“In my junior year I discovered books. . . . Devoured [them] the way other kids did candy or sandwiches, spent days… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
What you feel when you're writing is the relief of thinking: if you write the sentence correctly, you're clarifying. If you write… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I used to love to make things - you couldn't drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
I read and write for most of the day, but I do let myself be interrupted by real life. I enjoy going… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and… — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
I believe that writing for me is in a way like wisdom; in that as soon as you feel like you've got… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
“In books there’s nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space.… — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
“It holds my essential stuff, including a book—for true contentment, one must carry a book at all times, and great books so… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Assign each new hire to read a book and write a one-page report so you can see how serious they are about… — Patrick Bet-David Copy Share Image
There was a lot of great writing couples, but I try to do it all myself. And it was practically impossible, but… — Jackie DeShannon Copy Share Image
I don't think I compete with myself by trying to make a better book. I don't know that that's possible. I mean,… — Jon J Muth Copy Share Image
“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I've learned to really love revision over the years and worked hard to build up my craft muscle to make my revisions… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
![“Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind of out of the air, from nowhere, sometimes they're biographical, or sometimes they're other things [everyday life].” quote by Brian Evenson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5a/brian-evenson-21180_air_ideas-for-stories-come-in-really-differe_1550442.jpg)
![“In my junior year I discovered books. . . . Devoured [them] the way other kids did candy or sandwiches, spent days hunched over . . . my spine an oversized question mark.” quote by James Sallis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/822/james-sallis-19414_book_in-my-junior-year-i-discovered-books-dev_529481.png)
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