You do not have to practise all that you read. Take one or two things to practise and then it will become… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around. — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“If you don’t put 99 percent of yourself into the writing, there will be no publishing career. There’s the writer and there’s… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
“Many authors also attacked the widespread corruption among lawyers. In general, justice was recognized as being so unjust that, as Montaigne complained,… — Sarah Bakewell Copy Share Image
“There are not books enough on earth to contain the record of the prophecies Indians and other unauthorized parties have made; but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“Your case gives me new hope," I said to him. "With me, more and more often I happen to pick up a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“There wasn’t anything Lincoln wanted that he couldn’t afford. What did he really want, anyway? To buy new books when they came… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“A lot of (children's literature) beginners get bogged down by morals. A moral should never be driving the story. And a moral… — Patty Smith Copy Share Image
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page. — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
“What the hell? We’re all screwed up some way. At least you bathe and I don’t have to fight you for chicks.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect. — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
In my experience, every book you write changes the conditions in which you write the next. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“I swear, Papa, I'd give my virtue if it would get my novels published,' she exclaimed in vexation. 'I'm certain we've tried… — Margaret Westhaven Copy Share Image
“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.” — Tom Wiseman Copy Share Image
Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
You look so good," I say, and s***! Oh god, that's not what I meant. S***! "It looks good. The book. — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“Make today the day you begin that awesome idea you have had for years. Now go, write this book, and remember that… — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I don't hold a lot to the vest. I'm a bit of an open book, as anyone who knows me would contest.… — Katy Tur Copy Share Image
The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly… — Gregory Allen Howard Copy Share Image
I've adjusted to this, that my books are not going to get unanimously good reviews. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Education is the beginning of transformation. Dedicate yourself to daily learning via books/audios/seminars and coaching. — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working. — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“The images of men's wit and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation.” — Bacon, Francis Copy Share Image
As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a… — John Green Copy Share Image
A friend said he and his friend were describing books in the shortest way possible. The Bible came up the description was… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
