“If there’s a single idea I emphasize when people ask about writing, it’s that there’s no right way to produce a book.… — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“You say you have nothing to write about? How do you find things to talk about? You can write about those things… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
I read that book How to Hug a Porcupine [by Julie Ross] - it's my parenting bible. They say you have to… — Kelly Ripa Copy Share Image
“They ended up at the Old Corner Bookstore, which Brian had read about in a tour guide to Boston. "Longfellow and Hawthorne… — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
There's this idea that if you want to write, you shouldn't study literature because then you're dissecting what you love, and you… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other people's flowers,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Books whose topics I thoroughy depsise are accapteble because they often force the reader to think and to examine his own beliefs.… — Tiffini Johnson Copy Share Image
“I do not know whether many people realize how much more than is ever written there really is in a story— how… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down,… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Teaching high school was my real training as a novelist: it got me out of my head, and (at least a little)… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
In an age of never-ending health fads, it's comforting to learn that one of the healthiest activities you can do has existed… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I wish there were a hundred services with which I could easily look at such a book; it would have saved me… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
“the population of literate people has been declining steadily since Gutenberg’s day. By the twentieth century, less than two percent of the… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification.… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
My daughter wrote a book. She is a New York Times Bestselling Author. Fabulous. Couldn't be more proud. She also has no… — Kate Siegel Copy Share Image
The angels laugh at old Karl. They laugh at him because he tries to grasp the truth about God in a book… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill,… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
I know how hard authors work on their books and how far out of their element many are when it comes to… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
I don't ever think about the utility of fiction. I don't believe in it or certainly don't require anybody to consider it.… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
So much for the right books; the right use of them is another matter. The children must enjoy the book. The ideas… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Hip hop fans are obsessed, and they're geeks about hip hop. Comic book fans are also geeks, and when you can meld… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Show enough backstory to allow the reader to glean and make assumptions about what remains behind the curtain of time, yet continues… — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
“I am told there are readers of Genesis who argue the following: If evolution is true, there was no Adam and Eve.… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
It's a fun uphill struggle, making health insurance as a comedian, actor, and author. But it's hard to explain to people how… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
“Anna Arkadyevna read and understood, but it was distasteful to her to read, that it, to follow the reflection of other people's… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
“You can begin a story in the middle and create confusion by striking out boldly, backward and forward. You can be modern,… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I've always loved science fiction, fantasy, manga, comic books; so I guess, to some degree, those things influence my personal idea of… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
It's so exciting when a book catches traction you didn't even expect (or completely did expect!), and so frustrating when a book… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have… — Frank Yerby Copy Share Image
The reader has information about the characters that the characters themselves don't have. We all have our secret sides. Even I come… — Jaume Cabre Copy Share Image
“He pilfered a copy of Ulysses, but it was possibly the one book he did not finish. 'What's the point of it?… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
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