Books Quote by Luis Alberto Urrea

“Reading is a way to escape the real world. Writing is a way to create a new one.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

“A writer's job is done once the lines touch reader's forbidden chords.”

— Shreya Gupta

“Every so often I'll hear writers say that there are other writers they would read if for no other reason than to marvel at…

— Francine Prose

“Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.”

— Ron Brackin

“Sometimes I write about the forest, sometimes I write about the trees, and occasionally I’ll write about the lumberjack. Actually, the lumberjack is more…

— Jarod Kintz

“Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination.”

— Richard Louv

“The act of reading is a skill that can be cultivated.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“What does reading do, You can learn almost everything from reading, But I read too, So you must know something, Now I'm not so…

— Jose Saramago

“Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a job for visionaries and those…

— Chila Woychik

“They write for people who read with the surface of their minds, people with reading habits that make the smallest demands on them, people…

— William Gaddis

“Writing is no more than wending a way in an attempt to restore all of the paths that had been cut-short, headed off at…

— Mary Cappello

The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson