“There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.”— Bjork, goodreads.com
“Good fiction is written by people who’ve read a lot of fiction. If you want to be a writer, read a lot, and as broadly as possible.”— William Gibson, ideas.ted.com
“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a tab…”— Orhan Pamuk, amazon.com
“Ideas are a huge, huge blessing. That’s the thing you try to catch – an idea that you fall in love with.”— David Lynch, the-talks.com
“I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.”— John Gardner, amazon.com
“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”— Ursula K. Le Guin, amazon.com
“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you’ve finished just to stay near it.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“The model showed that symmetry in a plotline, and a clear three-act structure, tend to indicate that readers will find a novel pleasing.”— Jodie Archer, Matthew L. Jockers, amazon.com
“For me, words that you can’t understand in a book aren’t there to torture or remind people that they don’t know. I always felt they were to remind people that part of the experience of reading has always been collective. You learn to read with someone else…Reading is a collective enterprise.”— Junot Dìaz, youtube.com
“In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway. Wasn't until that night when I was faced with all those lousy pages that I realized, really realized, what it was exactly that I am.”— Junot Dìaz, cnn.com
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com
“The Corrections, say: I couldn't read that book if my life depended on it. It might be a 'good' novel or it might be a 'bad' novel, but something has happened to my imagination, which can no longer yield to the earnest embrace of novelistic form.”— David Shields, amazon.com