I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I don't reread my books after they're published, because it's agony. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
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The books that are really valuable are the books that evoke a sense of place. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read. — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
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Books may be written in all sorts of places. Verbal inspiration may enter the berth of a mariner on board a ship… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
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“Advertising, Marketing, PR can get more people to buy your book. Only great writing can get more people to love it.” — Ashok Banker Copy Share Image
I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
When I was a child in the Navy during World War II, I was perennially grateful to the armed services libraries for… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's book; I call upon you not to forget the book of… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
You shouldn't think of these movies as being 'The Lord of the Rings.' The Lord of the Rings is, and always will… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
They wouldn’t have believed me, and if they had they would have wanted me to explain. And I had no explanation, no… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
It was disconcerting for the novel to seem so different when I re-read it. Of course we are a different person each… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I… — James Frey Copy Share Image
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