Death is a big theme in the book, illness. What is that? It's a fact that human beings - no matter who… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
“First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Some of my fondest and most impressionable movie memories are from those early sci-fi and horror films. I've always been a Dracula/vampire… — Ray Wise Copy Share Image
'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
A living faith is always on trial; we call it faith for that reason. When I read in some alarmist book that… — John Edgar Park Copy Share Image
Writing for UrbanMoms has awarded me a multitude of amazing opportunities. I have traveled to new places; alone and with my family.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
People come, people go - they'll drift in and out of you life, almost like characters in a favourite book. When you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Make each day truly new, dressing it with the blessings of heaven, bathing it in wisdom and love and putting yourself under… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I'm interested in so many different things and I'd like to cover a lot of territory. I'm trying to see my show… — Joy Behar Copy Share Image
Sprawling, earnest, and ambitious - its modest title is 'The Future' - Al Gore's new book embodies both the virtues and the… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?”… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Much of what I do now stems from my rage at segregation and discrimination. I can't stand to see children not able… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
I relished the sweet sense of keeping a unique secret in my mind - a wonderful magical universe that I could go… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Follow your instincts. Do the kind of writing you love to do and do best. 'Stiff' was an oddball book - I… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“All the pictures in this book are authentic, vintage found photographs, and with the exception of a few that have undergone minimal… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“Writing is a physical art. And writing a book is a lot more like making a complex sculpture out of bronze than… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
My children threw me a life line: "Return to your roots - food - and rewrite your first book, Diet for a… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
If you can find two poems in a book, it could be a pretty good book for you. You know, two poems… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart,… — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
To my mind, the most successful and the best comic book illustrators are those who translate the real world into a consistent… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
“He also entered a bookstore called “Books ‘n’ Stuff,” that stocked more videos and greeting cards than books. Furthermore, its supermarket lighting… — Lilian Jackson Braun Copy Share Image
In my writing I wanted to be liked for writing really unlikeable stuff. There were books that people, particularly women, hated so… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
When I was first writing 'Feed' - which was the first book I published as Mira - I talked about it very… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Misha's importance and distinctiveness are beginning to be noticed, there's beginning to be some kind of rip-tide here that will soon become… — John Shirley Copy Share Image
Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
“No creas que estoy enfadada contigo. Sólo estoy triste. Por que tú has sido muy amable conmigo, y, a cambio, no he… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In order to read one must sit down, usually indoors. I am restless and would rather sail a boat than crack a… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
If you have ever been accused of being rude when you were merely stating the truth, or called a gossip because you… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is renewed each time you see it or read it. I've seen 'Midsummer Night's Dream' so many times, and each time… — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
In the Japanese movie's they're throwing everything they have at him, every missile, but he keeps coming, he can't be stopped and… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“But for me to start the journey of writing a book about my life, the first place I had to re visit… — Christian S. Simpson Copy Share Image
I remember writing a song when I was about 15. This is the one I can remember. I know I'd been writing… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
“What shall I do with all my books?' was the question, and the answer, 'Read them,' sobered the questioner. But if you… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I'd thought I'd constructed a really wonderful book, and the teacher told me that my story basically began on page fifty, and… — Rich Ferguson Copy Share Image
