“If you become a writer you'll be trying to describe the ?Thing all your life: and lucky if, out of dozens of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Throughout my life, ever since I played for Clausenengen back home, instead of listening to the teacher at school, I was writing… — Ole Gunnar Solskjaer Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time… — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
“That book of [Melancthon], to my mind, deserves not merely to live as long as books are read, but to take its… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When we read a book, we have a blurry image that's kind of physical but blurry. But we have an emotional image… — Niels Arden Oplev Copy Share Image
O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Who among us, crave not for affirmation? I am guilty of that craving when I checked my author.'s dashboard every other hour,… — Lucas Michael Copy Share Image
I have always trusted writers, books, thinkers, psychologists in figuring things out. Maybe because they don't know me, so they are always… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been… — Jim Garrison Copy Share Image
When I work on a book, I usually start with a question. And I don't sit around and go "I need to… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“Something else apart from this heady fusion draws us in to Nile Shadows, though, and that’s a certain compulsive quality that, as… — Edward Whittemore Copy Share Image
For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“This is something I've learned from writing my own short stories, novels and screenplays. Editors and film producers will often keep asking… — Rob Parnell Copy Share Image
“And yet sometimes she worried about those musty old books were doing to her. Some people majored in English to prepare for… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“I thought of all the summer evenings I'd spent sitting in the chairs under the trees beside the trailer, reading books that… — Heather Demetrios Copy Share Image
I decided to read something I normally hate: a cosy mystery. You know one of those mysteries where everything is tidily wrapped… — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
Let's say I'm on the policy wonk end of the spectrum. As much as I can dive into a briefing book and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“On the level of high art, in their common efforts to express human truths, relationships, attitudes, and personal visions, children's literature and… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
The 'stuff' in novels touches on every aspect of the world and people's lives. That's what makes it so remarkable just how… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Kafka is one of my very favorite writers. Kafka's fictional world is already so complete that trying to follow in his steps… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“And he gave me a few of the Xeroxed sheets of paper lying on the table in front of him. As he… — Milorad Pavic Copy Share Image
“Good characters make you feel like you have new friends, don’t they? You have to re-read the books just to visit with… — Shawn L. Bird Copy Share Image
“Is this a case of “Do as I say, not as I do?” The reader has a perfect right to ask the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I like to skip prewriting. I love just jumping into the actual writing process. Then I revise/edit and fix what I need… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
“No, I have as yet said nothing, or, rather, said only bookish words... and in the end the logical thing would be… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“The privilege is not writing a novel, it's to have someone read it. When you look at it that way, you realize… — Javier A. Robayo Copy Share Image
“We have looked for myths that include us in great novels, music, the latest comic book, or even some stupid advertising campaign.… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
I was approached by this guy Chris Renshaw, who had read my book and had read Leigh's book. He wanted to incorporate… — Boy George Copy Share Image
Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with… — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I agree that we should regard all books of the Bible as equally inspired - and important. But some come into sharp… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
“For some reason, when people meet me and find out I'm a writer they always ask if I write children's books. Um...… — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
“Much like books, she could tell how voiceless things had provided a brand of companionship more compatible to his nature than human… — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
I'm sorry I asked you out. I was drunk. I was at Tric and Haley gave this carpe diem speech...the kind that… — Mouth McFadden Copy Share Image
![“That book of [Melancthon], to my mind, deserves not merely to live as long as books are read, but to take its place in the Church canon; whereas your book, by comparison, struck me as so worthless and poor that my heart went out to you for having defiled your lovely, brilliant flow of language…” quote by Martin Luther](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/451/martin-luther-106_books_that-book-of-melancthon-to-my-mind-deser_1378110.jpg)
![“I was approached by this guy Chris Renshaw, who had read my book and had read Leigh's book. He wanted to incorporate both characters - he probably felt Leigh wasn't famous enough and he realized Leigh [Bowery] and I were associated.” quote by Boy George](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/966/boy-george-1385_book_i-was-approached-by-this-guy-chris-rensh_2018824.jpg)
