There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“I am a reader. A reader isn’t someone who just likes to read, but someone who feels such a strong attachment to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While THE NEW COOL takes the reader inside a season, limns a team and coaching staff, and masterfully recounts a gripping competition,… — L. Jon Wertheim Copy Share Image
When I did 'Racing Demon' by David Hare, I worked with Paul Giamatti, who had stacks of books in his dressing room.… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
The books that I do, the stories I write - I'm glad I'm able to do them, but they will quickly be… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged [Gerald] Posner in their books that they're going to have a… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
“And as for going into a bookstore and not finding a book suitable for your 13-year-old...maybe you should do some research before… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I never actually had a guitar lesson. I taught myself the guitar from piano exercise books, which led me to have a… — Trevor Rabin Copy Share Image
Action is inevitable and inescapable. The ancient Indian literature describes this world as Karma bhumi (place meant for action). Mother Nature teaches… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image
It’s being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it’s like… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I feel like the books were just written like a movie. You read it and you can just kind of see everything.… — Liam Hemsworth Copy Share Image
If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
For a whole year in elementary school, when the class marched down to the school library every week, I would refuse to… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
You get a good review, and it’s like crack. You need another hit. And another. And another. I know authors are like… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever written as many enjoyable, fun-to-read crime novels as Agatha Christie. It's all about the storytelling and the pleasure of… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
We all need to listen to our empathy and step towards kindness and I think books help you to remember that you're… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
I don't read a lot of fiction, but one of my favorite authors is William Kennedy; his books, to me, almost read… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
I think too much is known about me already. I think biographical information can get in the way of the reading experience.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“What if the killer was here? He or she could be standing behind Laurel at this very moment. Laurel shivered again. She… — Tayler Marie Brooks Copy Share Image
When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Books were the main reason Rose worked in bookstores, for no matter how chaotic and strange the worlds in them might be,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“If a story seems too random, or perhaps too brilliant, for a "madman" to have conceived of it himself, then consider that… — Rivka Galchen Copy Share Image
Love is like a book only you can read what your crush/love is talking about I'm inlove with three girls idk who… — Nikoskian Copy Share Image
“And then we went out to see the town. I was particularly eager to have a look at Gatlinburg because I had… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Being an author means, almost by definition, that you make up characters and then complicate their lives. That's it, really. You make… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me.… — Mati Unt Copy Share Image
In many ways, the ability to read is the great divide that separates the very young from everyone else. Once we've joined… — Patricia T. O'Conner Copy Share Image
Keep a diary, but don't just list all the things you did during the day. Pick one incident and write it up… — John Berendt Copy Share Image
My mom made me read a ton of books, so I got good at words and understood the English language. So when… — Saint Jhn Copy Share Image
“If we want to forecast whether the originators of a novel idea will make it successful, we need to look beyond the… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
Sci-fi novels are concerned with problems faced by all of humanity. Crises in sci-fi mostly threaten humanity as a whole. This is… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
I have quite a close relationship with violence and horror. They are enjoyable and terrible. I try and offset the horror with… — Evie Wyld Copy Share Image
Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make… — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
“Manuscripts were not easy to read, by later typographic standards, and what readers found in manuscripts they tended to commit at least… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
“I do feel that literature should be demystified. What I object to is what is happening in our era: literature is only… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image