Blue Quote by Hilary Mantel

One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Say you’re at home and you want something, like a book, so you go online and order it from Amazon. Two days later, the…

— Karen McQuestion

“Built-in shelves line my bedroom, adjacent to my Japanese platform bed, purchased for its capacious rim, the better to hold those books that must…

— Pamela Paul

“When your story is written on a piece of paper and that paper gets crumpled up and thrown into a shredder, you can piece…

— Ker Dukey

Sometimes I fantasize that all my furniture has been destroyed in a cataclysm, and I have to start again with only the stationery catalogue.…

— Hilary Mantel

“When I deeply see: • bedsheets painted with highlighter? … children live here! • dead rose left too long in vase? … lingering memories…

— Zondervan

“The Book of the Order lay open on his desk, the pages curling up from a spine stitched to last.”

— Hugh Howey

My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and…

— Allen Ginsberg

“On a good day, even writing can feel like a form of collecting—of gathering words, images, and ideas and arranging them in an order…

— Amanda Petrusich

“I fear the day when the technos decide that paper books are obsolete and we are reading from PC screens and iPods and eBooks,…

— Suzanne Somers

“For days I kept imagining the fate of the world's misplaced letters. I started noticing them everywhere. All the right letters sitting on desks…

— Avi Steinberg

I love language, words, and all the lovely, exciting, and heart wrenching things you can do with them. Pick the right ones, put them…

— Darynda Jones