An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.” — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made. — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination. — Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Copy Share Image
“These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.” — Stefanos Livos Copy Share Image
People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books. — James Redfield Copy Share Image
It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
She had the kids during the day and I would have them at night. That way they were never alone. I would… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
“A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
People are falling in love with characters now, and that is why writers are creating such stories. I am really happy that… — Rajkummar Rao Copy Share Image
You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I like each of my books to be different. Once I've done something I like to move on and push myself to… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A writer/director is a tough thing to gauge when someone hasn't directed a movie before. You just don't know. Sometimes it will… — Richard Ayoade Copy Share Image
Due to the sweeping time frame and the voices moving back and forth, the outline for 'The Invention of Wings' was the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Cinematic and symphonic: this is a compelling story revealed in a sequence of voices that are as pitch-perfect as they are irresistible.… — Rikki Ducornet Copy Share Image
Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Reading aloud and talking about what we're reading sharpens children's brains. It helps develop their ability to concentrate at length, to solve… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
Writers tend to suffer from back problems because they spend their time bent over a desk. — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
“I will read just about any book at least once! No matter what genre, I just love to read!” — Traci Wilcox Copy Share Image
The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
It's really hard to be a story writer - no matter how much acclaim you get - and not write a novel. — David Means Copy Share Image
I read a book a week, man. And I don't have a great memory, but I have a good memory about what… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful. — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing. — William Trevor Copy Share Image
There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks. — Mabel Seeley Copy Share Image
“Never underestimate a writer's vanity, especially that of a mediocre writer. (The Angel's Game)” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.” — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
“Love when you open up your kindle and find the next book in series you forgot was coming <3” — Tara Ahrendt Copy Share Image
