Books Quote by Patti Smith

“In the week I promised myself I should naturally read, for to the habitual reader reading is a drug of which he is the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“The best books act like a powerful drug--they take you out of your own head into experiences, emotions and settings a million miles away.”

— Anonymous-9

“better? But what would become of me if I didn’t write what I can, however inferior it may be to what I am? In…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Creativity is my addiction, and writing is my drug of choice!”

— AmBear Shellea

“Writing is a habit, an addiction, as powerful and overmastering an urge as putting a bottle to your lips or a spike in your…

— T.C. Boyle

“writing about drugs is like that though, isn't it? You can just tell when someone is writing about drugs and they've never really done…

— Irvine Welsh

The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book…

— Phillip Adams

The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is…

— Alfred Kazin

“replicates the feeling provided by an illegal drug that addicts will kill to possess.”

— Quinn Loftis

“Desire gives pain to the heart from which springs both hope and worry. Out of suspicion I make mistakes that grow into lasting ills.…

— Laurel Corona