In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
In fact, you don’t have a soul, you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
My gut is so strong. I feel like I have a lot of books in me, and they're going to come out… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on boring future generations — Charles De Montesquieu Copy Share Image
You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
My night stand is more like a geological structure: a bunch of books piled on the floor with its own strata. — David Grann Copy Share Image
Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I don't believe in holy writ. Buy fifty books or twenty-five books, take three weeks off, read them and make up your… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
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Seriously, I feel more like a revolutionary because the final goal is not only to download all the articles and books and… — Alexandra Elbakyan Copy Share Image
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“Cabral’s poetry, as with Guimarães Rosa’s prose, constituted a critical reply to the relations of determination that existed in regionalist literature between… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Copy Share Image
Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this Agent be material or immaterial I… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Agency over one's sexual self - and the articulation of that kind of agency - might seem transgressive to readers who don't… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights'… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled This could change your life. — Helen Exley Copy Share Image
Novels are written, not wished into existence. You have to sit your ass in the chair or nothing gets done. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
“What’s that?” "It’s a book.” "What’s that, then?” "A non-volatile storage medium. It’s very rare, you should have one.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books. — Saadi Copy Share Image
An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“My men are my references. They're waiting outside for the books. They're dangerous." "Men like that always are.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
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I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want to do… — Robert Hunter Copy Share Image
This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
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When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Someone should write a book where the main character slowly falls in love with the reader. — Crystal Roby Copy Share Image
