I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
When you look at me see the father, the awesome dad, the author, film director, business owner, champion, friend, Hufflepuff beast. — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway. — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all. — Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis Copy Share Image
Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure. — Pierre Beaumarchais Copy Share Image
The short story is still like the novel's wayward younger brother, we know that it's not respectable - but I think that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other - made up - people's problems and conflicts made my own seem… — Heather James Copy Share Image
I do think readers should respect my privacy, but I don't get angry when I get personal questions, because I understand why. — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“A novel without readers is still a novel. It has meaning, since it has had at least one reader, the person who… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
There will be birthdays in the next twelve months; books keep well; they're easy to wrap: buy those books now. Buy replacements… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story… — Janice Y. K. Lee Copy Share Image
“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I know how to write stories that are accessible to younger readers, and sophisticated enough for older ones. I'm not a big… — Hope Larson Copy Share Image
Usually I work out the plot before I start. This time I thought: Writers always talk about not knowing where a book… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
“If you can put this book down, it means you need more coffee and less sleep. After all, sleep is for the… — Leviak B. Kelly Copy Share Image
The author brings to the table a healthy skepticism of the conventional wisdom, an admirable ability to separate fact from fancy, and… — Alan Abelson Copy Share Image
Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.' — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Sophie's World' in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Like Petrach's, my books know infinitely more than I do, and I'm grateful that they even tolerate my presence. At times I… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“And her slender white neck was bowed over her book, the fair hair falling on either side of it” — L.J. Smith Copy Share Image
You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.' — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
I've always been a big fan of utopian, future, new-world stories - 'V For Vendetta,' comic books, graphic novels. — Andy Biersack Copy Share Image
I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
If you're going to write, then write a novel with a Haitian woman in it and try and describe her accurately. When… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
“To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.” — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
Truth does not contain in a single thought, in a single book, in a single religion. — Leeramtan Copy Share Image
Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment. — Marco Arment Copy Share Image
Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature. — Emma Bonino Copy Share Image
Everybody should read 'Slaughterhouse-Five' by Kurt Vonnegut. This book is about the hypocrisy of war, told in satire, and is hard-hitting and… — Kalki Koechlin Copy Share Image
“No person or events mentioned in this book should be confused with real persons or events. Reality is far to strange for… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
