Advocate Quote by Shannon Celebi

“I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I…

— Chloe Thurlow

“When you say you experience my writing as sacred, what you are touching is the divine place within me that is my mother. Sugar…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Reading is a solitary pursuit, even a lone passage to a separate world. Yet to read in public, amid strangers, gives it another dimension.…

— Nina Bernstein

“We're at once alone and in close company: this is the great gift of the novel, the element that makes reading more than a…

— Brenda Walker

Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in…

— Germaine Greer

Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.

— Clive Barker

“So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed…

— Annie Dillard

“The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The cats are asleep at the end of my bed and all around me, the thundery silence of L'Escarènere, caught at last in the…

— Patricia Duncker

“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and…

— Annie Dillard

“I am a passionate reader. New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“In order to be heard, an author must have readers...”

— Rachel Heffington

“Statistically, if you're reading this sentence, you're an oddball. The average American spends three minutes a day reading a book. At this moment, you…

— Dick Meyer

“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

— Christopher K. Krebs