“The writings are built by imagination. Emotions fill the colours to them.” — Sameer Khan Copy Share Image
“Remember, this person burns books. Does he really deserve to live?” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.” — Marc Levy Copy Share Image
The more I want a book to be done, the faster I type because I just want to get it out. — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It is an interesting process to revisit a previously essayed role and hit new notes and dimensions. — Arjun Mathur Copy Share Image
The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Writing about feeling disconnected has enabled me to connect, and that has been the most lovely thing of all. — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
It breaks my heart that we are always being nudged toward the most recently published books, when so many worthy books have… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick. — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs. — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“A writer will seal his own coffin, And the interests of readers will soften, If the author insists On the usual twists,… — Mark Grenier Copy Share Image
One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty is a beautifully written portrait of Eudora Welty and her amazing life. Carolyn J.… — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
You can always tell gifted and highly intelligent people as they always turn to the past. Any young person who knows anything… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I have a writing space in my apartment, but I prefer to write at coffee shops. When I'm stuck, I take a… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
I've been doing morning pages: the first thing I do when I wake up is sit down and write three pages of… — T. Mills Copy Share Image
“I knew that reading that book would take me into another world — the real world, not the ordinary world of washing… — Laura Amy Schlitz Copy Share Image
The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
What seems beautiful to me, what I should like to write, is a book about nothing, a book dependent on nothing external,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
