A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I am an author of Christian Fantasy. My first 7 books were Christian Romance, but I came over to the Dark Side… — Donita K. Paul Copy Share Image
David Cristofanos debut novel captures the essence of the human spirit, and delivers a story that is simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking. — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
To be honest, Im not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated. — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“Write the book the way it should be written, then give it to somebody to put in the commas and shit.” — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“The novel is a more diffused form and more suited to those who like to linger along the way; it also requires… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
“Or on retiring to Prunesquallors' he might take down one of the Doctor's many books and read, for these days a passion… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
I know "accessibility" is a term that's kind of thrown around wantonly today, especially with talking about visual media. But I think… — Nate Powell Copy Share Image
The success of 'The Widow' meant there were expectations for the second book from the first word, and it has created a… — Fiona Barton Copy Share Image
What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine… — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would come… — Valerie Simpson Copy Share Image
In Catholicism, you learn to worship a superior god that creates, who organizes and creates. And when you do novels, you have… — Carmen Boullosa Copy Share Image
Dostoevski does not tell you what to think about his legend, but he requires that you think about it. The novelist was… — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience and live without heart; We may live without friends;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
“Some good shit happens fast (a bestselling book), and some good shit happens slow (love).” — Caroline Kepnes Copy Share Image
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
I think writing a book about this experience would be trying to capitalize on it in some way and that's not something… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile. — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize. — Alistair MacLeod Copy Share Image
If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started… — Jimmy O. Yang Copy Share Image
“I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Jesus never wrote a book; never went outside his country. His only legacy was to never compromise the good. And it was… — psyche roxas-mendoza Copy Share Image
In the moment of reading, the writer comes up to the surface and the reader comes up to the surface and they… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else. — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“The sign of a good book is that it entertains you. The sign of a great book is that it changes you.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is very similar to a Politicians speech providing the book is Fantasy.” — DENNIS SEDDON Copy Share Image
The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Her book has perhaps been a good one; it has refreshed, refilled, rewarmed her heart; it has set her brain astir, furnished… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
While readers know that advertisements keep the product cost low, they still buy a newspaper for its editorial content and not for… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were… — John Scott Copy Share Image
Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Writing is alone, but I don't think it's lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they're writing their book, and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image