“I think about Rilke , who said that it's the questions that move us, not the answers. As a writer I believe… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“I follow where the story goes. Always. Every time. Sometimes it goes places where I'm not comfortable... it's at those times that… — Dennis Sharpe Copy Share Image
The rules for reading yourself to sleep are easier to follow than are the rules for staying awake while reading. Get into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I haven't the faintest idea what my royalties are. I haven't the faintest idea how many copies of books sold, or how… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
They were made up names in Dune that I didn't know how to pronounce, but I knew how I should sound because… — Virginia Madsen Copy Share Image
I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
At last an authentic voice from Saudi Arabia. Al-Mohaimeed has written a remarkable, rhythmic, genuine novel. Wolves of the Crescent Moon throbs… — Hanan al-Shaykh Copy Share Image
I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
How lucky am I? Quite often I speak at book festivals, and people ask me how I got published. There's people who… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“helping me. It’s a full-time job, and I am grateful for your concern for my reader friends. Of course, thanks to my… — Karen Kingsbury Copy Share Image
I like what I read, I find it intellectually engaging and I don't really have that much time, so I gotta make… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“READER, You have here an honest book; it does at the outset forewarn You that, in contriving the same, I have proposed… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Writing for children is my... that's my medium, you know, and the medium is the picture book, which is a very particular… — Mordicai Gerstein Copy Share Image
Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We must not inquire too curiously into the absolute value of literature. Enough that it amuses and exercises us. At least it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A library cannot be made all at once, any more than a house or a nation or a tree; they must all… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child,… — Slavoj Zizek Copy Share Image
When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why,… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“What makes a writer successful is not money or fame (though both are nice) ... it's that in being true to her… — Miyoko Hikiji Copy Share Image
By the end of the time I'm writing a book, I'm tearing my hair out and I want to go do stand-up.… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
“An increasing number of people are taking advantage of having a leg up on their competition by branding themselves as "the expert"… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek Copy Share Image
A novel can be set in motion by an incident, a character, a location, a mood - by anything at all. Sometimes… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both),… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“An illustration is an enlargement, and interpretation of the text, so that the reader will comprehend the words better. As an artist,… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When I first started, stand-up comedians writing novels was thought of as a great encroachment on the art form and people got… — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Somebody said recently that the best thing a student could do was to get in some shows and publish a book; but… — Henry Holmes Smith Copy Share Image
Book proposals are written like business plans. You need to identify your market, see what the competition is in the space, calculate… — J. Kenji Lopez-Alt Copy Share Image
I think our conception of literature should accommodate not only apolitical writers but also those whose political opinions we find unpalatable. Fiction… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy scriptures ever have the pre-eminence, and, next to them, those… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
My mother taught me how to read very early on and at school I was ahead of everyone in class... Reading was… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I opened a book and in I strode. Now nobody can find me. I've left my chair, my house, my road, My… — Julia Donaldson Copy Share Image
