I don't think my writing has much to do with my age. For me, my biography is more about what I was… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
When I was really young, Dad wasn't that well known. I don't remember when I realised he was a writer, but I… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Writing your book is not the end all of your strategy. It is a powerful catalyst that will push you to the… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek Copy Share Image
If you're rich, you can leave a library, a building, or a hospital wing. But writing leaves behind a visceral sense of… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty… Weakened in body by infirmities and in mind by age, now… — Thomas Jefferson 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
If the Library of Alexandria was the emblem of our ambition of omniscience, the Web is the emblem of our ambition of… — Alberto Manguel 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
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
“I’ll tell you a thing that will shock you. It will certainly shock the readers of Writer’s Digest. What I often do… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“What makes it is when you go over the whole piece each day from the start to where you go on from… — Paul Hendrickson Copy Share Image
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
After you publish a book, you become a writer and you're supposed to take it very seriously. You're supposed to show up… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Our reading can affect our imaginations in ways of which we are not consciously aware. It is quite common...to re-read something after… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books.… — Lorene Cary Copy Share Image
“That's what a good book does-it puts readers on their knees. It makes you want to believe in a world you just… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“I had been reading children's books all my life and saw them not as minor amusements but as part of the whole… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“Oh, don't get me started! I love fantasy, I read it for pleasure, even after all these years. Pat McKillip, Ursula Le… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“No one can learn to love by following a manual and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The Circle... Ted Dekker is my inspiration, my favorite author, and my hero, so it should come as no surprise that my… — Luke Alistar Copy Share Image
In fiction you can make up everything to create the feeling. You can manufacture a story with whatever tools you want. With… — Chelsea Martin Copy Share Image
Books, says Lord Bacon, can never teach us the use of books; the student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Deadlines help me, but my muse hates them. My muse functions in fits and starts, and tends to take very long vacations.… — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
“During my convalescence I had bought and read for the first time, The King in Yellow. I remember after finishing the first… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“There are certain authors out there whose books I'll read no matter what they're about. More often than not I don't even… — Shawn Kirsten Maravel Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
The bestseller charts, a sure indicator of public taste, tell us with relentless frequency that Marian Keyes or Jeffrey Archer is a… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“there is a great deal at stake here, many writers fight this battle and most lose it. what is at stake for… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Now, my all-time favorite accolade from a book reviewer was when Fernanda Pivano, Italy’s best-known critic, wrote in a leading Italian newspaper… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Most of us can’t rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven’t time, money or that… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word "publishing" means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries... What started… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Some of us, I imagine, write out of anger; some out of pain; some write out of prejudice or loss, some out… — R.J. Ellory Copy Share Image
“...it is when I'm buying books that I encounter the greediest people: the person selling his collection who will push to extract… — Shaun Bythell Copy Share Image
“A person who does not read, or reads little, or reads only trash, is a person with an impediment: he can speak… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
You will want a book which contains not man's thoughts, but God's - not a book that may amuse you, but a… — John Selden Copy Share Image
