“oaking” seems like a crazy word in an intimacy book. Yet that is exactly what you want to do in your relational… — Linda Boone Copy Share Image
“They write for people who read with the surface of their minds, people with reading habits that make the smallest demands on… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I knew that a zombie book would not particularly appeal to some of my previous readers, but it was artistically compelling, and… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“I am thus led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
For some reason, I tend to take on the stuff that people are really passionate about. If you make a list of… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. Most of the books… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending to be a writer is easy. Living… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
Publishers, editors, agents all have one thing in common, aside from their love of cocktail parties. It's an incredible taste and an… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
'Joker' was a violent, dark, and brutal book, so I wanted to do something a little less heavy. I played around with… — Lee Bermejo Copy Share Image
“Truth is always wilder than fiction. Hold on to your hats and enjoy this page turning look inside the world of sports… — Laura Atchison Copy Share Image
“The description of a new species of crayfish may detail every bristle on every segment of its many appendages and never be… — Storrs L. Olson Copy Share Image
Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I took Eugene Sue's Arthur from the reading-room. It's indescribable, enough to make you vomit. You have to read this to realize… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“They also bring to mind what sometimes seems to be a rapt predilection of small but influential cults of intellectuals or esthetes… — Hervey M. Cleckley Copy Share Image
“You’ve begun to master several techniques for controlling your anxiety. You’re learning the finer points of interaction and studying ways to apply… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow… — Charlotte Mary Yonge Copy Share Image
It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
No writer, I believe, should attempt a novel before he is thirty, and not then unless he has been hopelessly and helplessly… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I wonder, what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
“Don’t write what you know—what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you—and interests you… — Valerie Sherwood Copy Share Image
And if you're going to criticize me for not finishing the whole thing and tying it up in a bow for you,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“In telling a story one of the most successful devices for easily creating uncanny effects is to leave the reader in uncertainty… — Ernst Jentsch Copy Share Image
I like to carry around extremely pretentious books, and I don't know if I can read them, but if I hold them… — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
A journalist gathers information for a media outlet that disseminates the information through a broadly defined 'medium' - including newspaper, nonfiction book,… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
I am a pretty omnivoracious reader in respect to prose style, but if the prose doesn't have its own music, if the… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“It is sometimes the minor, not the major, characters in a novel who hold the author's affection longest. It may be that… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think Americans yearn for other alternatives to peace, than the path our government has currently taken, and perhaps why there is… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The best love story anyone could ever had written and had encounter is the one with God the author and finisher. God… — Telisa McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“the message at the core of this book: Working right trumps finding the right work—it’s a simple idea, but it’s also incredibly… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
What's interesting is that when you get into the post-war period, many of the narratives in books and movies conclude that if… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
