I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
One of the qualities of writing that is not much stressed is its problem-solving aspect, having to do with the presentation of… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
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I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies,… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
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Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader to suspend… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
The best books, they don’t talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about things you’d always thought about, but… — Tommy Wallach Copy Share Image
“a good book "never steals hours away from you; it always helps make the hours feel like they were spent doing something… — E.J. Copperman Copy Share Image
“All across America public libraries were, and are, being shut down, while prisons-with libraries-were, and are, being built. This has been a… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
One of the reasons we invented continuous prose was to lay out an argument, piling points on top of each other, weighing… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“CRUEL HARVEST by Fran Elizabeth Grubb is a compelling, riveting, unforgetable memoir that will keep you turning the pages. Published by Thomas… — Fran Elizabeth Grubb Copy Share Image
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I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
With my adult books, for the first six weeks or so, it's about 60 percent ebooks in terms of sales. The kids'… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Every time I'm feeling anxious, I go to my little meditation corner in my room and write down whatever I'm feeling. If… — Lexi Underwood Copy Share Image
“The novelist makes his statements by selection, and if he is any good, he selects every word for a reason, every detail… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I've had that situation where I start writing somebody really miserable, and in order to make the story come alive, I have… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Reading is not just about learning to recognize and pronounce words, but also about how to hear and understand them... It is… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
I'm trying to take more nothing time - and that means sacrificing doing. It's partly to do with age, partly to do… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Chet took a sip of lime cordial from his martini glass and asked, 'What does it take to be a librarian?' I… — Angela Pepper Copy Share Image
“The truth, however, was that there was very little greatness. It was almost nonexistent, invisible. But you could be sure that the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human,… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“When thinking harshly on the human condition, as I so often do, my antidote is to think gently on libraries, for if… — Howard Norman Copy Share Image
I never thought that it would take me so long to do something. I thought everything was temporary and sometimes the best… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I'm one of those lucky guys making a living out of something I really enjoy doing. That's a blessing. But you never… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting,… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that… — Tana French Copy Share Image
One of the things that I love about being a writer is this. I wake up every day and I write for… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story,… — William Kent Krueger Copy Share Image
Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I'm always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asleep. I… — John Waters Copy Share Image
As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I am fully intelligent only when I write. I have a certain amount of small-change intelligence, which I carry round with me… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
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I understood at once, I am not living, but actively dying. I am smoking, living unhealthily. I’m shutting down. I need to… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
When we want a book exactly like the one we just finished reading, what we really want is to recreate that pleasurable… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
