I’m asking the questions tonight.” One day I was going to write a book: How to Dictate to a Dictator and Evade… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Live your life like the novels that you love to read. Only do the things that when you look back, you are… — Taylor Berke Copy Share Image
a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“They are embossed on every song that was a hit that summer, in every novel I read during and after his stay,… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Dune; Nova; Double Star; The Corridors of Time; Cat's Cradle; Half Past Human; Murder in Retrospect; Gideon's Day; The Red Right Hand;… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
I wrote about 22 plays before 'When You Cure Me,' which was staged in 2005. I occasionally get them out and have… — Jack Thorne Copy Share Image
“How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I wrote about Herschell in my book 'Shock Value,' for which I interviewed him. We became friends; I had dinner with Herschell… — John Waters Copy Share Image
1 - 2 A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown.… — Paul von Hindenburg Copy Share Image
In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry –… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“These secrets are not secrets per se but are truths hidden from public view. I had to write this book. There had… — Rebecca Allard Copy Share Image
It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The heightened security restrictions on the airlines made the journey back from New York interesting, as I refused to be parted from… — J K Rowling Copy Share Image
When I go into a bookstore I always look for books by John Fante. If they are out-of-stock on one of his… — John Fante Copy Share Image
I think the path to becoming a writer has become more through the novel. It's easier to get a novel published than… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Maybe in writing about and through trauma it was therapeutic in a way, but it didn't feel like it at the time.… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
“The keeping of lists was for November an exercise kin to repeating of a rosary. She considered it neither obsessive nor compulsive,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“My best advice for aspiring writers is to read a lot and write. Don't worry if you don't get your first, fifth… — Katie Fforde Copy Share Image
How can you not understand?" He pointed at her books. "You read novels. Obviously, I'm here to rescue you. Don't I look… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“When I'm crusty and old, either of these two sentences will be constantly uttered by my wrinkled mouth. Yes, I was once… — Vergielyn Cubol Copy Share Image
“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she walked away from thinking,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Just because you boys are willing to work off the books doesn’t mean that I am,” Suzy rasped. “First time one of… — S.M. Reine Copy Share Image
“Your problem is that you’re more like an empty book and you’re waiting on someone else to write your pages for you.… — Garry Crystal Copy Share Image
It may be that a majority of superheroes are white males. But that's because they used to all be white males, except… — Neal Adams Copy Share Image
In hunting ideas for books, I look for stories about long-past events that once commanded the world's attention but that, for one… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“You can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom… — Antonio Muñoz Molina Copy Share Image
Seek the Path, do not seek attainment, Seek for the Path within yourself. Do not expect to hear the truth from others,… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
“Another very good test some readers may want to look up, which we do not have space to describe here, is the… — Gordon L. Kane Copy Share Image
“... While much recent historicist criticism has assumed early nineteenth-century readers attuned to subtle ideological nuances in poetry, actual responses from readers… — Andrew Elfenbein Copy Share Image
“Books are Windows of Enchantment - through them we can see - the moving spectacle of life: the farce, the tragedy. Every… — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
“My family, as always, is very supportive. My teenagers, Ben and Nina, had so little interest in interacting with me that it… — Barron H. Lerner Copy Share Image
I need it all: in-depth characterization, fantastic/warped world building, a plot that could out-race Secretariat, and a 'voice.' I need to hear… — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
“What is the colour of Christmas? Red? The red of the toyshops on a dark winter’s afternoon, Of Father Christmas and the… — William Sansom Copy Share Image
