“A wise man once said that if a book was not worth reading twice it was not worth reading once.” — Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson Copy Share Image
I don't really consider myself a writer, but I am writing so I guess I'm a writer. — Meital Dohan Copy Share Image
A writer takes his pen. To write the words again. That all in love is fair. — Matt Belsante Copy Share Image
“Oh this? It's a 'bookworm.' They live in books, and they love to eat important or valuable words.” — CLAMP Copy Share Image
“Writing is not a noun, it’s a verb. Writing is not a destination, it’s a journey. You should not write to accomplish… — Rodney L. Carlson Copy Share Image
“Read people by their surroundings, their personally designed environments. Like external body language, a room and how its arranged tells you things… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Music and books were my inspiration too. I read avidly as a kid. And that's the beautiful thing about books and music… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
It's very simple. If you learn how to write well, to write with depth, cream will rise to the top. You'll get… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I always wrote about myself in the third person. I knew how to promote myself so it sounded intelligent. I know how… — Lisa Lampanelli Copy Share Image
No writer can be the 'Master of the Words' without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carr’s hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
I've always operated with a great deal of self-doubt. Every time I start a new book it's like, well, this one will… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“A couple of months ago, I became depressed by the realization that I'd forgotten pretty much everything I've ever read. I have,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“...in one of his Irish Times columns written under the name of Myles na gCopaleen, [Flann] O’Brien offered a service to readers… — Colm Tóibin Copy Share Image
“I have always loved books for their reassuring heft, for their promise of new words, for their air of mystery, for their… — Monica Wood Copy Share Image
For anyone who conceives literature in terms of plurality of perspectives, Finnegans Wake has to be the apogee. For, as we are… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I think it's very, very, very hard to get a book published. I never want to be one of those teachers that… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
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