I pity those who have no taste for reading. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
I want to be a storyteller - not only of the Latin experience but of people who want to be inspired. — Nicholas Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I'm not clever enough to write. It's as basic and tragic as that. — Caroline Quentin Copy Share Image
To my ear, the term 'comic novelist' is as redundant and off-putting as the term 'literary novelist'. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It… — Quentin Blake Copy Share Image
No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page… — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
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As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it. — Sam Ewing Copy Share Image
“[About John Updike's Rabbit Run] The author fails to convince us that his puppets are interesting in themselves, or that their plight… — Chicago Tribune Copy Share Image
I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by… — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
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I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
If the rewards to authors go down, simple economics says there will be fewer authors. It's not that people won't burn with… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
The first draft is for YOU, the writer; the second and subsequent drafts are for the reader. Trying to do both things… — Karen Karbo Copy Share Image
Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“A true celebration of the human spirit! Although the subject matter of Black Notley Blues might lead one to expect a somewhat… — Bonnie Beckett Sacramento USA 4 December 2013 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
That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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