Introvert insight:

I could be social or I could read (I'd rather read).

My kinda party.

What if I told you I actually enjoy staying at home?

Your introversion is a gift that doesn't need to be cured or fixed.

My ideal world:

Let's get lost in a world made of books, coffee and rainy days.

Barbara Mertz, on writing:

The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.

- Barbara Mertz.

It's not hoarding, if it's books:

It's not hoarding, if it's books.

Collect books and build your home library.

Betsy Byars, on writing:

When I type a title page,

I hold it and I look at it and I think,

I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I’ll have a book.

- Betsy Byars.

I love books!

I love books!

Nancy Kress, on writing:

You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.

- Nancy Kress.

Just one more chapter ... and another ... and another ...

Bookworms will rule the world ... as soon as we finish one more chapter.

Mildred D. Taylor, on writing:

I do not know how old I was when the daydreams became more than that,

and I decided to write them down,

but by the time I entered high school,

I was confident that I would one day be a writer.

- Mildred D. Taylor.

Read ... as much as possible:

My kinda party ... reading.

Ann Patchett, on reading:

Reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book.

Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point.

The reader and the book have their own relationship now,

and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.

- Ann Patchett.

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.