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.

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.