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
“An essay course started at the Academy, I wrote about Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, one of the books I was really… — Karl Ove Knausgård 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
“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
“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
“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
“On some level, most novelists write fiction to create order out of chaos. When you shape a fictional story, you can tie… — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
I go to Amazon to browse for things I can then go find at the mall. It's like window shopping online. I… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
I write books to open people's minds, to present new perspectives, to make people realize that what they think is obvious is… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
The writer asks himself, 'Can I think of a plot that will parallel this? Can I take this work of literature as… — J. V. Cunningham Copy Share Image
“It's when people begin to fancy that they actually know something about literature that they cease to be literarily interesting, or even… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Sometimes you write and you find yourself almost wondering how it will turn out. I don't think every writer sort of almost… — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
I'm very conscious that I'm an entertainer. Something like 73 percent of my readers are college graduates, so you can't condescend to… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
We need prizes as publishers... to focus attention on books, for people to know what to go look for. But often in… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
“So this is supposed to be the how, and when, and why, and what or reading - about the way that, when… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
After the dreadful frustrationsFreudians have experienced with my other books, I am sure they will refrain from inflicting upon Waltz a sublimation… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I want to see mountains again, Gandalf, mountains, and then find somewhere where I can rest. In peace and quiet, without a… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies foreseen… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The book says, 'Vanity Fair - a story without a hero.' Becky is effectively the protagonist, the hero we follow. But she… — Tom Bateman Copy Share Image
I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
... because real thoughts come from outside and travel with us like the noodle soup we take to work; in other words,… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
“Every time I read a management or self-help book, I find myself saying, “That’s fine, but that wasn’t really the hard thing… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Books do not perish like humankind. Of course we commonly see them broken in the haberdasher's shop when only a few months… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
It is inconceivable that anyone will divulge a truly effective get-rich scheme for the price of a book. There is ample opportunity… — Victor Niederhoffer Copy Share Image
“As I believe I have said, everyone in prison is an innocent man. Oh, they read the scripture the way those holy… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“With bloggers in particular you’ve got millions and millions of people who are working really hard to write stuff up. They're writing… — Jim Kukral Copy Share Image
People are constantly telling me, whether they are friends who feel sorry for me, because I can't find a place to live,… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
“When a book ends, it no longer belongs to you. It belongs to the world. It's a gift from you to the… — Jennifer Probst Copy Share Image
Upon graduation, go out into the world and try to find yourself. What do I mean by that? Read Socrates, no. Get… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
“This is the testimony of all the good books, sermons, hymns, and memoirs I read--that God's ways are infinitely perfect; that we… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
“Razieh had an amazing capacity for beauty. She said, You know, all my life I have lived in poverty. I had to… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Oh, how few find time for prayer! There is time for everything else, time to sleep and time to eat, time to… — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
“When I had no books and had to learn everything I needed off by heart, and when I had to hide what… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
