One of O'Reilly's advantages is that we have a network of thousands of user groups to whom we give free books, to whom we advertise our... →
Tim O'Reilly
Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books... →
Joyce Carol Oates
Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.
Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.
I have read on a Kindle. But the Kindle we had only worked for about eight months then it stopped working. You don't have to get books repaired.
The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and... →
Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little chance operation sometimes where I flip... →
Jenny Offill
Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y.... →
Sharon Olds
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers -... →
Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.
Lauren Oliver