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I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches. — Douglas Wood Copy Share Image
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“Picture books build readers, Mr. Leon. Two missing books from our collection is like two missing bricks from a cathedral.” — Kristin O'Donnell Tubb Copy Share Image
“I noticed you made a bee-line for their bookcases." It is the oldest and most incorrigible trait of the book-lover.” — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along. — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
The best advice I can give to any aspiring author is to write every single day. Work at the craft of writing.… — Andrea Davis Pinkney Copy Share Image
Book publishing was never a heaven "run by editors", and it is by no means today a hell "run by accountants." If… — Patrick Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
“The Book of Enoch is an ancient Jewish text, which indeed elaborates on the cryptic verse from Genesis 6:4: “The Nephilim were… — Joseph Finley Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called 'Tales From The Crypt' and 'The Vault of Horror.' They… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
You’re probably wasting time on things like eating and sleeping. Cease that, and read all of philosophy and all of literature. Also… — John Barth Copy Share Image
The digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I'd never had before. I didn't meet the people who… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
“What a drug this little book is; to imbibe it is to find oneself presuming his process. I read and feel that… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Who do you think that old woman is from whom you received the book?” And I said, “The Sibyl.” “You are in… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
I love reading - inspirational books, leadership books, biographies. I exercise a lot and put on my audio book. Even If you… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since. — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
“I’m afraid you’re going to have a rather boring couple of weeks, Mr. Smith. If I were you, I’d buy a couple… — Mina Carter Copy Share Image
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I never have time to cook, so I just look through the books and imagine the dishes I would make if I… — Isla Fisher Copy Share Image
Following takes why. Transactions take what. It has to be real. It has to be the same for writing a book. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Thoth, Hermes, the stylus, the palette, the pen, the quill endure, though our books are a floor of smouldering ash under our… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth. — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
If I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing. — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
I can't be told life is beautiful through a normal positive thinking book or a Hallmark movie; that language doesn't work for… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety. — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
“Daniel Coyle, author of The Talent Code (2009), describes coaches as farmers who cultivate talent in others.” — Elena Aguilar Copy Share Image
Young adult author Richelle Mead holds the distinction to perhaps be the only author ever to have a book banned... before it… — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
*two girls hitting a boy with a coloring book* me: hey girls are hitting on you!! :) — Yeah Buddy Copy Share Image
Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
