“I tell writers not to think about writing short stories or novels. Just write one good scene. And then a novel becomes… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Well, yes, there were quite a lot of books throughout, tumbling out of haphazardly placed bookshelves, stacked beneath chairs, beside beds, even… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“Romantic literature often presents the individual as somebody caught in a struggle against the state and the market. Nothing could be further… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The Hawk and the Dove is a wonderful idea for a book, wonderfully carried out. Nicholas Thompson has used illuminating new material… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
You don't want to spend your life writing about stuff that doesn't matter. You want to try to pull out of the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Books, like all art, breed in us desire. In times of crisis and fear and misrepresentation we need desire, or else we… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I'm a big, big reader of pretty much everything that Chuck Colson has written. And I consulted with him when I was… — John Thune Copy Share Image
Before the first press pictures, the ordinary man would visualize only those events that took place near him, on his street or… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“That night Christine Hartmann went to bed with a book she had taken from among the many that lay strewn around the… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“It is an adventure called Bertie’s Botheration. A haunting, gothic tale of…” She stopped for the dowager was frantically gesturing to her… — Anya Wylde Copy Share Image
I am NOT an anarchist. Never have been, never will be. Just because Crimethinc put out two of my poetry books, I… — Raegan Butcher Copy Share Image
Although I'm not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies made from them, regardless of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Favorite books and authors while growing up - I'd need a book to list them all. For the sake of brevity: Shakespeare,… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put… — Andrew Gross Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If somebody says to you the quote"don't judge the book by its cover", then better first close your eyes for a moment… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
I really wanted to succeed. I wanted to be accepted. I read every magic book that I possibly could, studied every move,… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
“I hate the concept of likeability—it gave us two terms of George Bush, whom a plurality of voters wanted to have a… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“It was true Paige and I had dinner alone. She wanted to stop by and pick up some books — poetry books… — Elissa Schappell Copy Share Image
For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“One thing she did not know was the greatest book on human psychology is the Bible. If you were lazy and did… — Buchi Emecheta Copy Share Image
“While I realize that there are a lot of different angles on this, I’m going to set all of these speculations aside… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And here, of course, we come to the one occupation of a female protagonist in literature, the one thing she can do,… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach;… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Whatever one may say, writing a novel is a very different thing from living one. All the same our lives are not… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“One of the sad little secrets of the writing life is that it’s become like the movie business, where a movie has… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
Something happens between a novel and its reader which is similar to the process of developing photographs, the way they did it… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
“But literature is unique. To understand literature, you read it with your head, but you interpret it with your heart. The two… — Camron Wright Copy Share Image
since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
I grew up with six brothers, and I'm from Chicago, so princesses and Barbie dolls were not around the house. It was… — Chloe Bennet Copy Share Image
