There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret. — Johann Sebastian Bach Copy Share Image
“You need not to burn copies of a book. Just make people feel indifferent to the book.” — Lara Biyuts Copy Share Image
“And private in his chamber pens himself, Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out, And makes himself an artificial night. Black… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes you just have to move on and put that chapter of life in the past. Dont close the book, just turn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
“Right," Jenna said. She was sitting on a desk next to me. She spent most of the class reading those mangas she… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
I write exactly what I think. If it's a raw subject, I write lots of things and then pull out all the… — FKA twigs Copy Share Image
Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye… — John Green Copy Share Image
Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
I actually was doing ghostwriting jobs since I was 17 years old, so I've been supporting myself off and on with writing… — Brady Corbet Copy Share Image
“I recognized my work for what it was--as unimportant a drug as cigarettes to get one through the weeks and years. If… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
While I was writing 'Elizabeth Is Missing' and struggling with the intricacies of the plot, I told myself the next book would… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
Memoirs have at their heart a content that "happened" to someone in real life. Is that what you are itching at in… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
The biggest invention of modern time is the book. The book is a digital medium; book text is written in a different… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
The hardest bits of my book to read were the easiest bits to write because they were the most immediate. Probably because… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
