You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
But literature, I discovered, can also save you. Truly. Over the cliché and through the truth, it can save. — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“As long as a reader hasn't willingly put down his book, he is a potentially dangerous individual.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A singing goat is like reading books, I love goats and dinosaurs."-Albert Einstein” — Andrew Clements Copy Share Image
“Magic lands in books had always seemed close to nature, but in a nice way, without all the unpleasant details.” — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
I love seeing a story evolve over several books and watching characters develop. — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
“Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does:otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“...begged them as we read our literary texts, only to listen. To wrench open - it takes an effort of will -… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
“Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of… — United Nations Copy Share Image
“I seriously doubt that the smile is our species’s “happy” face, as is often stated in books about human emotions. Its background… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Life is like a book. Some chapters are sad, some are happy, and some are exciting, but if you never turn the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I realized early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job. Because there are no pay grades and very little… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely. — Todd McFarlane Copy Share Image
“Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books.” — Kate Evangelista Copy Share Image
The first music I heard that made me put away my comic books and make music was original punk. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
“Indeed, all books, each and every book ever written, could be said to be offered to the reader as a form of… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers. — Richard Heber Copy Share Image
Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote. — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
There's always some place to go. You don't need workshops, you don't need friends necessarily, you can be befriended by literature itself. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I tell you what's really ridiculous--going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk,… — Julie Gregory Copy Share Image
There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere. — Don Roff Copy Share Image
“Man reading ought to be a man intensely alive. The book ought to be a ball of light in his hands. ” — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Russian literature, like colonial Canadian literature, comes with a lot of landscape backdrop. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
The unique thing that literature provides is to be able to step so fully into another situation and condition. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“to take ones word at face value lacks sufficient evaluation to benefit the reader or leader” — Joseph W. Parker Copy Share Image
The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“My novel is the rock to which I cling and I know nothing of what is taking place in the world.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“He used books the same way he used alcohol: to pretend that he was not here, and if he was here, that… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
