Education Quote by Katherine Paterson

“People kept their books, she thought, not because they were likely to read them again but because these objects contained the past--the texture of…

— Tom Rachman

“I certainly couldn't have survived my childhood without books. All that deprivation and pain--abuse, broken home, a runaway sister, a brother with cancer--the books…

— Junot Díaz

“Books have given me great stores of happiness, but if I am honest with myself I can see they have also taken something away.…

— Kyo Maclear

“If books had not bound together the experiences of former generations, the shackles of later generations in their forgetfulness would not have been loosed.”

— Mahbud

“I had been working hard at my book; it was one of those rare days of authorship when everything seemed to go right; the…

— Gavin Maxwell

“But maybe they understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the world placed in books,…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“No kind of writing lodges itself so deeply in our memory, echoing there for the rest of our lives, as the books that we…

— William Zinsser

“When it worked, reading could take away the burden of time.”

— Nic Pizzolatto

“I’d made work a large part of my life and had forgotten to live my private time without strains of my work seeping into…

— Harlem Dae

One thing about having mostly absent parents that I think was perhaps "good" for the development of my intellect/writing is that I was given…

— Marie Calloway

“Writing is a lonely are at times, we spend so much of our time locked in a room and never know if we are…

— Hubert Selby Jr

“For twenty years I have sat alone at a desk tinkering with sentences and then sending them out, and for most of my literary…

— Rebecca Solnit