Coffee + book = happiness!

Coffee + book = happiness!

Lucy Maud Montgomery, on books:

I am simply a 'book drunkard.'

Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee.

I cannot withstand them.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery.

It's always that time in our home:

It's book o'clock somewhere.

Mary Lee Settle, on writing:

I start with a question.

Then try to answer it.

- Mary Lee Settle.

Every book opens to a new adventure:

Every book opens to a new adventure.

Margaret Culkin Banning, on fiction:

Fiction is not a dream.

Nor is it guesswork.

It is imagining based on facts,

and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.

- Margaret Culkin Banning.

Conjuring magic is easy ... all you have to do is read a book:

Experience magic.

Read.

Andy Ihnatko, on writing:

Writing is hard.

That's why so few people stick to it and actually finish things.

And why you have a right to be immensely proud when you finish something.

- Andy Ihnatko.

Just one more chapter ...

I'm not addicted to reading.

I can quit as soon as I finish one more chapter.

Zelda Popkin, on writing:

Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer.

Another is keeping regular working hours.

- Zelda Popkin.

How I keep adding to our home library:

I am not buying any new books.

Oh, look!

A book!

Barbara Mertz, on writing:

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds:

the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

- Barbara Mertz.

The answer? Start another book!

I finished my book.

And now I don't know what to do with myself.

Mary Roberts Rinehart, on writing:

My crime books are actually novels and are written as such.

One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of which is the story I tell the reader,

and the other the buried story I know and let slip now and then into a clue to whet the reader's interest.

- Mary Roberts Rinehart.

Read books and let your imagination fly:

Read books and let your imagination fly.

P. D. James, on writing:

I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us.

I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.

- P. D. James.

Collect books and build your own home library:

Books are medicine for the mind and soul.

Build a library and immune yourself from ignorance.

Julia Alvarez, on writing:

It's like my whole world is coming undone, 

but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, 

and I'm stitching the scraps back together.

– Julia Alvarez.

One of the reasons I keep buying books:

Abibliophobia:

Noun.

Definition:

The fear of running out of things to read.

Ann Patchett, on writing:

I'm very comfortable writing.

- Ann Patchett.