“Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?” — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Really unfiltered personal writing is cool to me. I'm like, 'How did you show that to everyone?' — Lucy Dacus Copy Share Image
Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming. — Holly Johnson Copy Share Image
Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Writers are those weird people that can break through misunderstandings and deliver stories that speak to many. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In fact, when I finally shuffle off this mortal coil, you will have to pry a book out of my cold, dead… — Michael Cart Copy Share Image
I was at CBS News on a fluke. I replaced somebody who was on vacation. I worked as a copy boy, then… — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out… — Herbert A. Simon Copy Share Image
“The reading of old books enables us to avoid becoming passive captives of the Spirit of the Age by keeping “the clean… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“The diarist [Anthony Powell] has never adhered to the tedious practice of reading only one book at a time” — Lady Violet Powell Copy Share Image
The world of WONDERLAND is authentic, vibrant, and genuine. Stacey D’Erasmo explores the delight and terror of second chances. A great read! — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
In Sussex Drive, Linda Svendsen takes us deep behind the lines of Ottawa’s politics, polls and pomp, and into the lives of… — Terry Fallis Copy Share Image
“And that is to say, of course, that you can "read" a culture without its literature, without the bother of gathering and… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
“There are some works so luminous that they fill us with shame for the meager life to which we are resigned, that… — Hervé Le Tellier Copy Share Image
The more I wrote, the more I became a human being. The writing may have seemed monstrous (to some) for it was… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“I lived in the royal library, among all the books." "You resided in a... library?" "There were suites inside and great balconies… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
A writer who doesn't need the money gains power and is dangerous in a negotiation. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
That's one of the great thing about writing is that you get to be in someone's head. — Lauren Conrad Copy Share Image
A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time. — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
“An author is like a jeweller, with words as their gemstones and imagination the precious metals.” — Steve Smy Copy Share Image
“Don't worry about getting published. Write for therapy. Write for you.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever. — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
“I was a shy girl, but when I read, I was adventurous. Books made me bolder.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
You can't control what's going to happen to the book you're about to publish. — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
“It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds...” — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
It's doubtful that any fiction worth reading has been produced on a computer running Windows Vista. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new. — William Temple Copy Share Image
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