Books Quote by Paul Theroux

“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

“The conclusion to be drawn is that I am happiest writing in small rooms. They make me feel comfortable and secure. And it took…

— Danielle Steel

“The act of writing, it seems to me, makes up a shelter, allows space to what would otherwise be hidden, crossed out, mutilated. Sometimes…

— Meena Alexander

“I learned that there are books and there are readers; given even the worst of circumstances, they get together. In the privacy of their…

— Elizabeth McCracken

“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if…

— Jessamyn West

“Good writers are like magpies, attracted to shiny things and storing away treasures - pieces of dialogue and experience - which pop up from…

— Jane Wilson-Howarth

“Authors are the curators of experience. They filter the world's noise, and out of that noise they make the purest signal they can-out of…

— Peter Mendelsund

“Connelly writes, “As long as there is paper, people will write, secretly, in small rooms, in the hidden chambers of their minds, just as…

— Will Schwalbe

“He has discovered the truths that keep writers chained to their desks: the primacy of the inner life and the sheer exhilaration of creating…

— Barbara Klein Moss

When someone's a writer, it's very creative and moody, and you think of someone walking around the office in pajamas thinking of ideas.

— Stephanie Savage

“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he…

— Orhan Pamuk

“daughter of the past who walked in all wide-eyed and exhaling like she’d finally found what she was looking for. It was a look…

— Patti Callahan Henry