“We need readers,” muttered Daniel Chard. “More readers. Fewer writers.” — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting. — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
The reason truth is stranger than fiction is that truth has a better author. — Stuart Taylor Copy Share Image
I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake. Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a… — Max Jacob Copy Share Image
Your skin is not paper, don't cut it. Your face isn't a mask, don't cover it. Your size isn't a book, don't… — Connor Sinnett Copy Share Image
“...and my books are like friends that I come back to at night." ~Cynthia Batten” — Cynthia Batten Copy Share Image
“There being no international copyright laws, “pirated” editions abounded, with no complaint from the public, or much from authors, who were lionized.” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
With each book, I've found myself more and more able to draw off the personal and still be as vulnerable as I… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
“The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“Books that glorify virginity demean women with healthy sex drives who aren't married to Jesus.” — Hazel Kelly Copy Share Image
“The arrangement of chapters 40—66 is not accidental. “The Book of Consolation” is divided into three sections; each focuses on a different… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
“..."(Years of work are required before the cerebral mechanisms for reading, if regularly oiled, finally become unconscious.-Stanislas Dehaene.) The important thing is… — Jacques Bonnet Copy Share Image
There's a kind of funny gap between 14 and 20 when young people don't read very much. Nobody really knows what to… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is interesting to ponder the fact that there is no real difference between what the Western Fascists wanted of literature and… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“For most of the process, nothing but faith, fueled by your own stubbornness, will be pulling you along. The work that you've… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“Flaubert teaches you to gave upon the truth and not blink from its consequences; he teaches you, with Montaigne, to sleep on… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about… — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets. — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
“Fred Kofman, a former MIT professor and author of Conscious Business” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“It was easy to see that he was clever and well read, but he was also boring.” — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted. — George Stephen Copy Share Image
“Books only change the world if the world is capable of digesting them.” — Luther Blissett Copy Share Image
Novels teach you that actions have consequences. They help you grow up. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives?” — Michael Gruber Copy Share Image
