Annie Dillard said:

“Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now.”

Jeremy Collier said:

“A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.”

Angela Carter said:

“A book is simply the container of an idea—like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.”

J.K. Rowling said:

“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”

William Zinsser said:

“I almost always urge people to write in the first person. … Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.”

Joseph Joubert said:

“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”

Ernest Hemingway said:

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature.”