“I honestly had no fucking clue what I was doing, I just made it up as I went along.”— Amy Kaufman, themuse.jezebel.com
“Books are like seeds: they come to life when you read them & grow spines & leaves. I need trees around me as I need books around me, so building bookshelves is something like planting trees.”— Roger Deakin, amazon.com
“Libraries are time-machines. Libraries are wildwoods. Libraries are galaxies. Libraries are magic portals into learning & dreaming. Libraries are vital for social mobility.”— Robert Macfarlane, twitter.com
“Read more books, I guess, is what I’m trying to say. Read stories about other people, other emotions. Get emotions that you can’t get from daily life just now.”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“The only updates you need to send an agent reading your query is if you've received an offer of representation or the Nobel Prize. Everything else irrelevant.”— Kate McKean, twitter.com
“Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it’s the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.”— John Waters, amazon.com
“If the 1st Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“DO read books with compelling characters whose choices drive the plot. DON’T tape hornet nests to your hands and call yourself Hornethands Jones.”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“I feel like 'fun' is frequently dismissed as a quality of a book, usually played down as escapism or, usually, just as a side note. Few people actually talk about what a fun book means. For me, it’s never meant escapism. 'Fun' means joy. It means the prose is exciting, the characters are great, the…”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“I never bailed on a book when I was a kid. Like, once I started, I was along for the ride. And I don't remember thinking critically along the way.”— Rainbow Rowell, twitter.com
“You know what would make a great coffee table book? A coffee table book about coffee tables! Get it?”— Tom Gammill, Max Pross, Tom Gammill and Max Pross, Cosmo Kramer, Michael Richards, imdb.com
“What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses—like they're trophies. What do you need it for after you read it?”— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”— Anna Quindlen, nytimes.com
“Books can be as long as they need to be. A tweet should be short and sweet.”— Stephen King, twitter.com
“That’s why I write the kind of books I do! To help girls know they have worth, and will be okay in the end - like me!”— Meg Cabot, twitter.com