Collect books and build your home library:

You know you're a bookworm when your ultimate goal in life

is to have you own special library in your house.

Patricia Wentworth, on writing:

There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write.

This is very different from wanting to be a writer.

To be a writer always seemed something so far removed from my talents and abilities and imaginings that it didn't afflict me at all as a notion when I was young.

But I was always conscious that I wanted to write.

- Patricia Wentworth.

I need more books ...

It literally stresses me out how many good books are out there that I still haven't read.

Shannon Hale, on reading:

Life is short, so live extra lives.

Read books.

- Shannon Hale.

The magic of imagination:

Books don't just go with you; they take you where you've never been.

- Anonymous.

Margery Allingham, on writing:

I write every paragraph four times –

once to get my meaning down,

once to put in anything I have left out,

once to take out anything that seems unnecessary,

and once to make the whole thing sound as if I had only just thought of it.

- Margery Allingham.

The value of reading and the power of imagination:

That moment when you're reading a book

and the whole world around you doesn't exist anymore.

Jean Craighead George, on writing:

To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems.

Be a good listener.

The rest will come.

- Jean Craighead George.

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!