I read Gide's 'The Immoralist' over and over as a teenager. I was obsessed with it. It's written with such simplicity and… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
In language that is searing and lyrical, evocative and precise, this exceptional book thinks with the zombies, specters, felons, slaves, dogs, cadavers,… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
Many causes may vitiate a writer's judgement of his own works. On that which has cost him much labour he sets a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“What they held was already inside me, and together we could get away. And standing over the smoldering pile of paper and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Killing Lincoln is a must-read historical thriller. Bill O'Reilly recounts the dramatic events of the spring of 1865 with such exhilarating immediacy… — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
“Those of a future generation will one day look back on printed books with the same benign and befuddled expressions that we… — Jason Merkoski Copy Share Image
It’s a job. It’s not a hobby. You don’t write the way you build a model airplane. You have to sit down… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
“We have a lot of books in our house. They are our primary decorative motif-books in piles and on the coffee table,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I put a lot of pressure on myself to figure out what to say and, lately, I've started trying to work through… — Steve Gunn Copy Share Image
“I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
I've never talked to anyone writing a book on me. I've had so much written about me that is made up, usually… — Warren Beatty Copy Share Image
We all know the old expression, "I'll work my thoughts out on paper." There's something about the pen that focuses the brain… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I'm asking the reader to suspend reality with me and entertain the idea that the person writing is not me. In order… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There are three things that I'm addicted to when it comes to entertainment. In no particular order, One, I'm addicted to the… — Dean Devlin Copy Share Image
“It turned out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“GENERAL NOTE TO MYSELF - Douglas Adams Writing isn’t so bad really when you get through the worry. Forget about the worry,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“In the summer, when the days were hot and your writing was good at night, you knew you could find solace in… — Joseph Kutil Copy Share Image
“I finally realized that I must do my schoolwork to keep from being ignorant, to get on in life, to become a… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Like many people, I had the powerful experience of being raised on Dr. Seuss, then becoming a parent and revisiting him with… — Chris Meledandri Copy Share Image
Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
“Warning: This data storage unit, or "book," has been designed to reprogram the human brain, allowing it to replicate the lost art… — Mike A. Lancaster Copy Share Image
“Most people go in bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow, the books sit there, almost magically willing… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really… — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
The longer I write, the more important I believe it is to write the first draft as fast as possible. In drafting,… — Donald Murray Copy Share Image
I've never been able to force a novel. I always had the sense something being given to me. You can't sit around… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
“You can't murder a book. Even I know that. But you know what you can do with a book, what you can… — Lady Jaida Copy Share Image
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
As a story writer, you have work with sharp but relatively small tools, the picks of metaphor, the shovel blade of images,… — David Means Copy Share Image
The Library of Relationships: Finding someone is like finding a book. You shouldn't walk in the Library and pick up the first… — TroyCj Copy Share Image
From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“Always the same seesaw. The fear that my scribbling could get me put into a concentration camp. The feeling that it is… — Victor Klemperer Copy Share Image
Early in my career, I decided not to do sequels. I know that children enjoy them, but I valued the feeling that… — Betsy Byars Copy Share Image
I had a perfect confidence, still unshaken, in books. If you read enough you would reach the point of no return. You… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
“It takes a long time to open someone like a book, you need to press your spines together. Then the patterns of… — Kelsey Ipsen Copy Share Image
So, short stories have an even harder time, because they tend to get read during the day, between other things. They're interstitial.… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
You always want to go out there with the best book possible, so I listen to what my editors say, and even… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
