“Whether the Koran is of eternity I don't ask about that That it is the book of books I believe it to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel as if ideas for a novel kind of pop up like numbers in a bingo tumbler, and then they're… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“A reader lives a thousand lives before they die... One who never reads... only lives ONE” — Aiah Radwan Copy Share Image
I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again. — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what its like to really adore something. — Todd Lowe Copy Share Image
How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best. — Aaron Shepard Copy Share Image
I was trying to write a song based on a story in a random book of Puerto Rican short stories that I… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Never Mind Nirvana is the first novel I’ve read that makes music as important as food, clothing romance — a fresh twist… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
“This novel is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to peoples either living or deceased is purely coincidental. Names, places, and characters… — Addison Moore Copy Share Image
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a… — Todd McFarlane Copy Share Image
“John Updike, in that book you gave me, he said the dead make space. Do you know what I think? Updike doesn't… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
I spent six years after my first novel and five years after my second without getting into a new book. — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I didn't want to just write a series - I wanted to write an epic, on story that spans three books, where… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
I keep an ongoing list of my fifty favorite books, which I recalibrate whenever I discover a new one that seems to… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
FAILURE is a single paper in a book of success... but, Sucess is tha whole book itself… So, Don't loose a full… — Sanjufago Copy Share Image
“Henry was inclined to drift towards books as keenly as a duck paddles for bread crusts.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
I know that I want to bring sex and horror together as I have been able to in my books. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
George Bush says, 'Gore's book needs a lot of explaining.' Of course, Bush says that about every book. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
When I did start writing books, I didn't realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms. — Lisa Whelchel Copy Share Image
Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use literature to… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
My feeling is that a newspaper should serve its readers and it just seems to me that given what is going in… — Sally Quinn Copy Share Image
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I think that it's only natural that readers become writers. You can only learn so much before you have to share it… — Geary Davis Copy Share Image
“Enormous novels by co-eds. Rain down on our defenceless heads. Till our teeth chatter.” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
When I was in kindergarten, I remember looking at picture books of the space shuttle. — Jared Isaacman Copy Share Image
I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual. — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible. — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
“I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading, I cannot sit and think.… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
