There's something paralyzing about being a writer that you have to escape. I don't want to think of myself as a guy… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
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I want to go to college for literature. I want to be a writer. I mean, I love what I do, but… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
“Books are essential to me. I cannot live without them, because I cannot live without reading. But, Arry has just said to… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
“Could I write an autobiographical novel, I wonder? Can one make a book out of the very essence of one's self? Perhaps… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
Burmese authors and artists can play the role that artists everywhere play. They help to mold the outlook of a society -… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such… — David Ignatow Copy Share Image
The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It is beneficial to consider the origins of "riddle." The Old English rædelse means "opinion, conjure" which is related to the Old… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
“My writing, on the other hand, is always done with my readers in mind. I never write for my own amusement. I… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
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We can already say emphatically that there is no longer any solid basis for dating any book of the New Testament after… — William F. Albright Copy Share Image
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“a serious contender for my book of year. I can't believe I only discovered Chris Carter a year ago and I now… — ayaz mallah Copy Share Image
The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
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I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
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For us to know that the Book of Mormon is true, we must read it and make the choice found in Moroni:… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off… — William Golding Copy Share Image
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“Twentieth Century Fox commissioned a screenplay of Bobby Kennedy’s book. Budd Schulberg, the celebrated writer of On the Waterfront, wrote the screenplay,… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
I definitely feel like when I write a book it's not my job to police or guide the readers. The book and… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
In You Are Not Dead Wendy Xu breaks all the old rules that have never done us any favors anyway. She writes… — James Tate Copy Share Image
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“It is unlikely that many of us will be famous, or even remembered. But not less important than the brilliant few that… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
I do not read the works of Salman Rushdie, I write them. By the time I have finished writing them all I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
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What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why I go… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
Alafair Burke's first standalone is a must read! You'll lose yourself in this riveting story of Alice Humphrey, a woman whose nightmare… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your… — Tim Wynne-Jones Copy Share Image
I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
The idea for Maximum Ride come from the earlier books of mine called When the Wind Blows and The Lake House, which… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at… — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprenticeship… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
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We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
