“And now if you'll excuse me, I should like to finish my book, alone, without the presence of a single ringleted girl… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Along the (writing) way accidents happen, detours get taken... But these are not "divine" accidents; I don't believe in those. I believe… — John Irving Copy Share Image
For proponents of ecosystem-based management,the good news is that another new book, Ecosystem-based Management for the Oceans, conveys the topic at its… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
I'm a wide-open book. I talk to guys coming out in the draft every year. I'm a wide-open book. I'll give you… — Carson Palmer Copy Share Image
“As you put your children to bed, spend at least three minutes of private time, after books and bathroom and teeth-brushing, and… — M. J. Ryan Copy Share Image
“I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about.… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these will lie either… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“It's not that I think that computers don't have their place, but surely their place is not in bed, which is my… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I don't think a novel's main donation, main gift, is the document. The document is there, but a novel goes beyond documentation.… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established… — Loretta Lynn Copy Share Image
If youre struggling, you deserve to make self-care a priority. Whether that means lying in bed all day, crying, sleeping, rescheduling plans,… — Danielle Koepke Copy Share Image
“Our appetite for destruction grew with feeding. I started gingerly, pulling some books out of a case, but soon was tearing out… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Once in a while - perhaps every 10 years, or even every generation - a novel appears that profoundly questions the way… — Tash Aw Copy Share Image
I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
“Have they all bought Kindles? I have one, and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering,… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to… — LaToya Jackson Copy Share Image
If I haven't put that on a T-shirt, I'm going to. Actually, I really don't want to write anything that can't be… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to… — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
“Are you missing the library again?" Seth asked, startling her as he walked into the room. Kendra turned to face her brother.… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
“Then I realized that I was falling victim to one of the fallacies of the bad reviewer (whose habits we already discussed… — Kevin Guilfoile Copy Share Image
I believe that it's an author's job to cast his imagination into the far spaces. Your life should - and I think… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
The way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“You always felt destined for stardom of one kind or another. But the fear that maybe that wasn't true wouldn't leave you… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at… — Fred Saberhagen Copy Share Image
One of the more depressing things about reading your fiction 25 years later, or 10 years later, is you realize the only… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Amendments occupy a great deal of most legislators' time, particularly those lawmakers in the minority. Members of Congress do author major bills,… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“Looking back over my own life I here declare without apology that it is the study of God's Word, year after year,… — W. Phillip Keller Copy Share Image
I record all my speeches and have DTP prints of them. When I happened to read the speeches compiled I thought it… — Balachandra Menon Copy Share Image
What seems beautiful to me, what I should like to write, is a book about nothing, a book dependent on nothing external,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
Typically in my novels the narrator tells a story by remembering, and the memories are colored by this and colored by that.… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Not everything in life is so black and white, but the authenticity of the Book of Mormon and its keystone role in… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“... my aim in writing The Watch That Ends the Night was not to present history. My aim was to present humanity.… — Allan Wolf Copy Share Image
I'm a wishy-washy 'Guardian' reader, but the last thing I want to do is force a political agenda down people's throats. It's… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“I knew that reading that book would take me into another world — the real world, not the ordinary world of washing… — Laura Amy Schlitz Copy Share Image
With traditional school visits, I also get to speak with people who haven't read my books and talk about my writing process… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
The internet can be enormously helpful, just like books can, but I don't think it's the be all and end all for… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
