It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.	Jane Hamilton
	Books had instant replay long before televised sports.	Bern Williams
Jerry Seinfield		The big advantage of a book is it's very easy to easy rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning.
It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing - that's the Lord's test.	Mahalia Jackson
	Give me books, fruit, French wine, and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I don't know.	John Keats
Unknown		Literature is the grindstone, to sharpen the coulters, and to whet their natural faculties....
I am neither a man nor a woman but an author.	Charlotte Brontë
	I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.	Eudora Welty
Rebecca West		Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to literature.	Sarah Orne Jewett
	I never wanted to grow up to be a writer, I just wanted to grow up to be an adult.	Toni Morrison
Gloria Swanson		I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
The main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery at it is incarnated in human life.	Flannery O'Connor
	Each person has a literature inside them.	Anna Deavere Smith
Agatha Christie		The time for planning for a book is while you're doing the dishes.
Writing is the greatest invention of the world.	Abraham Lincoln
	A dream and a #2 pencil can take you anywhere.	Unknown
John Kieran		I am a part of all I have read.
Suit the action to the word, word to action.	Shakespeare
	I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.	Don Marquis
Aldous Huxley		Every man's memory is his private literature.
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.	V. S. Naipaul
	Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.	Josephine Hart
Mary Pipher		Your journal is a place where your point of view on the universe matters.
Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.	Rod Serling
	You are the same today that you are going to be five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read.	Charles Jones
Barbara Tuchman		Words are seductive and dangerous material to be used with caution.
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.	Ingrid Bengis
	Writing . . . keeps me from believing everything I read.	Gloria Steinem
Toni Morrison		I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.	Dame Daphne du Maurier
	We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.	Thomas Jefferson
Lord Brabazon		I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.
This is not a book to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.	Dorothy Parker
	Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.	KurtVonnegut
Moses Hadas		Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.
Never judge a book by its movie.	J. W. Eagan
	The pen is mightier than the sword... and besides, it's a lot easier to write with.	Marty Feldman
Jorge Luis Borges		I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.	Catherine Bowen