Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of a good book.” — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“I am a writer because I write, an author because I create, a poet because the words are in my soul.” — Wesley D. Gray Copy Share Image
You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
It was always in the back of my mind while we were working on the first year of 'Rookie' that we'd do… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
“You have seven writers in your basement?” Donald nods, signing, “They like it here. There’s a poet, a couple of novelists, an… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS) — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so… — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
“Anyone longing to become a writer, for even a few moments of his life, will vainly weave fantastic events unless he has… — Ivan Klima Copy Share Image
This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it. Some days… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Writing short stories was kind of like I was cheating the whole time, in some way. I went back and forth between… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Look at the way the walls curve,' Macey said, her gaze panning around the strangely shaped room. 'it's almost like...' 'The library,'… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
“Jamie felt a strong desire to go across and see what the open books were, to go to the shelves and run… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The thing that was much harder than I expected was figuring out what to do with 20 tons of books. That led… — Ian Christe Copy Share Image
