Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
My Panasonic typewriter can make graphs. It types in four different colors. — Heather O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living. — Nancy Spain Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome. — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Thinking of Poe, thinking of Mark Twain and Vachel Lindsay, thinking of Jack London and Tom Wolfe, one begins to feel there… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“[Books] were the world I could lose myself in when the one I was actually living in became too lonely or harsh… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got… — Edie Falco Copy Share Image
I do have people in mind when I write. I don't know precisely who they are, however, or how many of them… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“When becoming a writer don’t think of success, imagine you are throwing your book into a vast ocean with the only hope… — Mark L Lloyd Copy Share Image
“If you are a real writer, then just surrender to the writer's life, all of it, even the bad stuff. When you… — Lauren B. Davis Copy Share Image
It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing -- to present my unhappy reader… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
My own view is simply that there are some very basic rules; very simple rules that apply to all writing in a… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
I follow the way people change. I follow the way people, who are very antagonized to one another become very close to… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I wanted a feeling of accumulation. I really wanted the moments to add up because they do add up. I wanted to… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an… — J.A. Konrath Copy Share Image
“A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are equally opened to him.… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
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