“ Wasting time on timing stuff is a good way to save time from being wasted on other pointless activities like writing, reading, and sleeping. Will Advise
“ It feels like someone is gripping my heart and twisting it. It feels like I can't breathe. I shut my eyes tightly against the memory that is threatening to surface. I can't br Ashley Earley
“ The magic in writing is not so much using your imagination as it is allowing the reader to uses theirs. When I write a novel I’m not going to hand walk you through each scene. Avid readers tend to hav… Carl Henegan
“ Writers are magicians. They write down words, and, if they're good, you believe that what they write is real, just as you believe a good magician has pulled the coins out of your ear, or made his assi… W.P. Kinsella
“ With my sort of book there's no resolution, because there's no solution. The problems aren't answered in the end because there is no answer. They're problems that are handed on to the reader, not solv… Malcolm Bradbury
“ People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape. Dermot Davis
“ The world is full of disappointment," I said."Yes," she said, "I heard him say that. And every creature is simply trying to get what it wants, and to make their way through a difficult world. Do you b… Lemony Snicket
“ So you’re a reader,” My mom sighs, as if somehow this elevates Isabel to yet another realm of perfection. Denis Markell
“ When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don’t hand me a book? Richelle E. Goodrich
“ He always thinks because I'm reading, I'm not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted. Pierce Brown
“ Novelists and the literary world play an important part in shaping languages. The Swahili they write influence the readers and their languages. The literary obstacle in Tanzania is not that people do… Enock Maregesi
“ To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They're also theirs. Pamela Paul
“ Whenever one of us introduced an old favorite, we savored the other's first delight like a shared meal eaten with a newly acquired gusto, as if we'd never truly tasted it before. Pamela Paul
“ Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book. Siri Hustvedt
“ Books gnaw at me from around the edges of my life, demanding more time and attention. I am always left hungry. Pamela Paul
“ There were the people who read and there were the others. Whether you were a reader or a nonreader--it was quickly noted. There was no greater distinction between people. People were amazed when he as… Pascal Mercier
