“Critics all have this idea that authors inhabit another dimensional realm, right up to their first smack in the mouth - which… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel amongst the bridge players and swillers… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
“The 1920s was a great time for reading altogether—very possibly the peak decade for reading in American life. Soon it would be… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Write. Remember, people may keep you (or me) from being a published author but no one can stop you from being a… — Katherine Neville Copy Share Image
I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All we did in Alabama was have a read through with the script, but there was, 'No, well, it needs more. You've… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
“Once I began a book, I couldn’t put it down. It was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life,… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Lemony Snicket. Now, I'm told - the books, of course, starting from the very first one, became hugely popular, selling millions and… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks.… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
“Most secret societies—at least those you can read about in books or on the Internet—are collegiate. Or adult... They are like fraternities,… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
For a while I used to listen to those whispers about babies costing you books, and Cyril Connolly's loathsome quote that "There… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
“I work [at a library] because I love books, because I'm inveterately curious, and because, like most librarians, I'm not well suited… — Josh Hanagarne Copy Share Image
Reading has made me more open, has improved my understanding, and has made me a better artiste, but it also makes me… — Sonam Kapoor Copy Share Image
“I used to pinch those pages closed when I read the book to keep from having to see Joan [of Arc] fail.… — Madeleine George Copy Share Image
“In a book, all would have gone according to plan... but life was so fucking untidy — what could you say for… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“So I can finish this diary, and God only knows if I shall ever begin another. If I do, or if I… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“The whole of world history often seems to me nothing more than a picture book which portrays humanity's most powerful and a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“On Three Ways of Writing for Children”: When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Even though I've reached retirement age, I still plan to work - writing my investment newsletter, speaking at conferences, publishing books, and… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Recently an actor came to visit me. He is a new entrant into the film world. He asked for my autograph with… — Osho Copy Share Image
“The existence of any library, even mine, allows readers a sense of what their craft is truly about, a craft that struggles… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“University lectures are an obsolete practice inherited from the Middle Ages when books were scarce. Students should read, not listen. To swallow… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The writer's object should be to hold the reader's attention. I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I'm aware more than I was before I had books published that any review is a bit arbitrary - it's not really,… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
When I'm really plugged in I find it difficult to write. It's like digging a well. If you make a void, something… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers; and I was in a sweat to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“And yet, wasn't the terrific thing about stories the fact that they joined readers together, that they made people realize they were… — Adam Langer Copy Share Image
I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys.… — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
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“May be its a good idea to write something about you in my book... At least then, there will be a place… — Anamika Mishra Copy Share Image
“Early on, for better or worse, I chose whose child I wanted to be: the child of the novel. Almost everything else… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
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