Writing a novel is a very hard thing to do because it covers so long a space of time, and if you… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Rarely does a complete idea come to me. I basically start with just a small scene or a snatch of dialogue and… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I liked painting, very early on, even more than drawing. I used poster paint on posterboard. I would copy images that I… — Mark Ryden Copy Share Image
I think, oh my god, kids are reading, and they care about a book enough to come over and talk to me… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
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My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word 'snob' comes a little to mind - derives from the… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Even on the iPad or the Kindle, when reading a book, you're rewarded for pressing a button - it's almost as if… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
At the 'Guardian,' we have a special relationship with our readers. This relationship is not just about the news; it's about a… — Katharine Viner Copy Share Image
I've always said if somebody wrote a book and they took their whole life to learn that knowledge in that book, why… — Jeff Olson Copy Share Image
Of course we all know people who aren't cut out for college, but I know it's a mistake to think of education… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading… — Guy Johnson Copy Share Image
“A choking dry-ice smog of disappointment, pooling in the drops and troughs of suddenly uncertain ground. Mudyards, wit here and there the… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Michael Koryta isn’t just one of the finest authors working in the crime genre today. He’s simply one of today’s finest authors,… — William Kent Krueger Copy Share Image
“What is that big book?" said the little prince. "What are you doing?" "I am a geographer," said the old gentleman. "What… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
We as artists are actively encouraged - by other authors, your agent, publisher, and society - not to think about money, strategy,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I think the climax of the book will be the execution of poor old Edgar Derby,” I said. “The irony is so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
It's something that people who read my materials have asked me in the past. If you don't have principles - the last… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
“ Confession time: I doubt I would ever have picked up one of Marjorie’s books, had I not met her in person.… — Bill Willingham Copy Share Image
she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
When I was writing my first novel, I smoked cigarettes. And when I think about what it was like to smoke, I… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
When I was doing missionary work when I was younger, which started this obsession of mine with the literature of witness, I… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
GOD is the author of life. He is the reason why certain things were allowed to happen. He holds destiny.He knows when.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My first book published in France was translated and titled Exercices d'Attente in 1972. It was a collection of short works written… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
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“It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of the task which it is performing, and survey what… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God.… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
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A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don't have the drive, the discipline, and the… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
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