One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.” — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“Don’t focus on having a great blog. Focus on producing a blog that’s great for your readers.” — Muhammad Tabish Copy Share Image
Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“Literature is still doing the same job that mythology did earlier, but filling in its huge cloudy shapes with sharper lights and… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident. — Kaye Gibbons Copy Share Image
“I might also say, regarding reviews and reviewers, that I have yet to read a review of any of my own books… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life. — Margaret Forster Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the novel is a more perfect life and reality, which God creates through us. Perhaps we live only to create it.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I spent many years in grad school in English, so I've read a lot in a variety of genres. But adventure fantasy… — Saladin Ahmed Copy Share Image
“Mr. Wellins said it didn’t matter what a writer intended his work to mean, that the only thing that mattered was what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
“We writers are the worst kind of cruel, Because we worship our own stories and poems, And what human can compete with… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“You are not to take it, if you please, as the saying of an ignorant man, when I express my opinion that… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I envy other writers who claim to have a backlog of books they'd like to write. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths. — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
“I remember a time when bookshops smelled of books and not coffee.” — David Llewellyn Copy Share Image
“Dogeared pages were Antichrist of book lovers everywhere.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
Whenever one writes a book one should have a notional reader in mind. — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
