“Never chew off the hand you write with, you might survive and have to sign autographs.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“The most important thing to do when writing a book is to finish it.” — Suzanna Reeves Copy Share Image
“My library isn't very extensive but every book in it is a friend.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
I am extremely passionate about reading and like to read about anything and everything under the sun. — Asin Copy Share Image
“Lifelong readers continue to read, finding in books the means to enjoy life or endure it” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm sure my first nine years have had a powerful influence on the kind of books I write. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“Authors...keep writing those great books for children and teens. It's a proven fact that those children & teens who read are less… — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
My diary became more than a place to record daily events. It became a friend, the paper that it was made of… — Zlata Filipović Copy Share Image
The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece. . . . This is a spellbinding, powerful novel. — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
“The instinctive preference was to read rather than to act. No wonder our actual lives were more or less a shambles” — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I write in cafes, never at home. I cannot focus at home, am forever getting off my chair to do other things.… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
I do not write by any set time schedule. I realize there are many writers who follow a daily regime where they… — Donald McKay Copy Share Image
It takes me about a week and a half to read the typical book. I don't know how many ten-day spans I… — Ken Kalfus Copy Share Image
I have a great editor and I enjoy, in a masochistic way, being ruthless about my own performance. How do I know,… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“Realism is for lazy-minded, semi-educated people whose atrophied imagination allows them to appreciate only the most limited and convention subject matter. Re-Fi… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“With its weight and solidity, a book signals to the world that there are ideas worth preserving in a form that carries… — Steven L. Carter Copy Share Image
“Hemingway studied, as models, the novels of Knut Hamsun and Ivan Turgenev. Isaac Bashevis Singer, as it happened, also chose Hamsun and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Every broken piece of me fell on every broken piece of you and when I took the missing parts, like the emptiness… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
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