“reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with ones own” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Stories allow the writer and the reader to live in the same world” — Irene Fantopoulos Copy Share Image
Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world. — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
“people who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened 1 are right to be” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
a writer's first duty is to be clear. Clarity is an excellent virtue. Like all virtues it can be pursued at ruinous… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“Most of us live in two worlds - our real world and the one we build or spin for ourselves out of… — Julia L. Sauer Copy Share Image
I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The greatest books in Russian literature are satires. Gogol's Dead Souls, for example, is a very over-the-top satire about life in Russia.… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently.… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but… — Marco Arment Copy Share Image
I do extensive research before I begin writing, but only a fraction of the research goes into the novels. The writer does… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
My favorite is 'The Last Coyote.' I'm not saying that's the best book I've written; I hope I haven't written my best… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
If a reader believes that everything in nonfiction or history is just objectively true, I don't really know what to tell them,… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write.… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
A love of reading encompasses the whole of life: information, knowledge, insight and understanding, pleasure; the power to think, to select, to… — Frances Clarke Sayers Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any topic a writer should feel afraid of tackling just because it has already been discussed. If you… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“The power of a writer... Jack's Theory. You may say what you will about me, though in a little while no one… — Jack Kingsman Copy Share Image
