“In the end he read everything that came his way, and he did not have a favorite author but rather many who… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
It's always hard to write and get your words out there, to find an editor, a publisher - readers! - who are… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The only pleasure in redecorating or moving house comes from stumbling across books that I'd almost forgotten I owned. — John Burnside Copy Share Image
With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait… — P. C. Cast Copy Share Image
The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Each book holds an experience and an adventure." [ Letters of Note ; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]” — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Not all writers are artists. But all of us like the idea of somebody in the year 2283 blowing the dust off… — William Attwood Copy Share Image
I struggle with confidence, every time. I’m never completely sure I can write another book. Maybe my scope is too grand, my… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow (in the Book of Genesis days are equal to years, ages). But… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“WHy bother to write if it isn't disturbing, banal, beautiful, hardcore, cutting edge and savage, and melts a readers mind because they… — Jane Brooke Copy Share Image
At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I didn't have any great talent. I didn't want to become a rock star or an author. — Kumar Mangalam Birla Copy Share Image
I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was. — Cilla Black Copy Share Image
If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“In a bookstore you can find me in the romance section, because I’m not a lover, I’m a reader.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
With both novels and short stories, I think a lot in terms of character arcs, when it comes to endings. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels. — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
I make extensive outlines before I write a book. I usually know what will happen. I know the characters, and I know… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS) — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The guy in your book? I’m that guy,” “I’ve never done any of the stuff in that book,” she said, “But I… — Laura Kaye Copy Share Image
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I love the challenge of taking established, iconic comics characters and showing readers why they remain contemporary. — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“You shouldn't write about your personal life', says the one feeling threatened by the truth to the writer.” — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“Somewhere there must be women reading books, and talking of chicken rissoles to their cooks … (from,‘Somewhere in England’)” — Virginia Graham Copy Share Image
Ann Coulter is very popular. She has got a niche. She is a best selling author, but she does not represent Republican… — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press. — Charles James Copy Share Image
“Read what you like, not what you’re told to like. That way you’ll read for a lifetime.” — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
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