Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I try not to read my own books just because I would rather read somebody else. — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
This is the copywriters task: not to create mass desire — but to channel and direct it. — Eugene Schwartz Copy Share Image
I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally. — Ashanti Copy Share Image
Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else. — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“A novel is more a symphony, opera, oratorio. It exists in time, it goes by you a sound dying out as you… — Dorothy Bryant Copy Share Image
Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
Writers are stewards of the culture. Publishers, librarians, bookstore owners. We're all in this together. To write books that are gripping, important,… — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Engage with your readers as often as you can. Readers, myself included, want a relationship with everyone in their lives, even the… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I always say writing fiction isn't something you teach. It's something you do, and only experimentation - i.e. doing it, either badly… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
The basic thing is to be humble, and pretend you're a bartender in the tavern of life. Don't get too comfortable and… — James McBride Copy Share Image
“The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“There were others, such as Jack London,who offered their readers such a respite from the miserable horror of existence that their books… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
If the White House could do more to tell parents that getting children reading is their business too, we'd see a big… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“Thank you to Steve Iwanski and Turnrow Books for this fantastic review of THE RESURRECTION OF JOAN ASHBY!! Cherise Wolas' debut novel… — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
“She did not believe Fate as painstaking as her husband; she was more inclined to take matters into her own hands. She… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
