Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“Like everyone else, I have my black list of unfavorite authors and critics, and among intimate friends I sometimes say exactly what… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Theory sometimes seems to me a way of taking revenge on literature—the critic masters the text and rewrites it in his own… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
“Lord, help us root our feet to the earth And our eyes to the road And always remember the fallen angels Who,… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“He has nothing personal against Christ; though raised Unitarian—with its glaring omission of Jesus and a hymnal so unorthodox that it was… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
The only power source a book needs is you. If you have to leave for a few minutes you have not lost… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I'll think about something else. I'll just sit quietly. If I could sit still. If I could sit still, maybe I could… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“...in all my writings I have always tried — how far successfully I know not — to advance the cause of Truth… — R.M. Ballantyne Copy Share Image
I like film books at the bottom of the barrel and art books at the top. 'The Ghastly One,' by Jimmy McDonough,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I could easily pen an entire novel on why I love this city, and believe me, I am a lifelong advocate of… — Maneet Chauhan Copy Share Image
“Ah!' said Michel, tempted, 'you have modern poems?' 'Of course. For instance, Martillac's 'Electric Harmonies,' which won a prize last year from… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“On Ira Gershwin: I remember when he was given the manuscript of a novel written by a woman friend who had hopes… — Oscar Levant Copy Share Image
I don't write books because I have answers. I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
My hope is that my novels reflect the reality of a world where good and evil exist, imperfect people make mistakes, but… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
“(in which, along with Montaigne, we raise the question of whether a book you have read and completely forgotten, and which you… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
“Pick up any book about personal finance and you’re likely to read a 200-page mind-fuck about being cheap. Of course, these books… — MJ DeMarco Copy Share Image
Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working. Such writers don't want to irk their readers;… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
“I look over at my hero shelf and see Philip Levine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf, Shunryu Suzuki, Adrienne Rich, Pablo Neruda,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
I started writing books and making clothes for my dolls when I was around 10 as a way of making my reality… — Kerli Copy Share Image
Writing a book is the most terrifying thing that I've ever done. It's so much harder than writing for television because it… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“Destroying a book is not the same as destroying a human life,’ argued the artificial philosopher Photozeiger. ‘It is much more serious.… — Matt Suddain Copy Share Image
Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough… — Charles Guggenheim Copy Share Image
“Montag tried to see the men's faces, the old faces he remembered from the firelight, lined and tired. He was looking for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
In so-called communist Romania, chess was held in high esteem, even if our champions were weaker than the Soviets. This game, this… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new,… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Everyone should have the right to go off and do their music or do their books. The people who are in the… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Poetry of all the forms of literature I think is the most suited for the digital age and for the shorter attention… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I've just always loved books, and I love the idea that we're all just really made of stories. I do also like… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“I may have drawn an axe being raised in this example, but I'm not the one who let it drop or decided… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I am a writer (and one day I'll be an author). For a long time I was a bookseller (who wrote) or… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“A great book does not have to be a literary masterpiece with complicated sentences and words no one has heard of. It… — Amanda Mackey Copy Share Image
