“After much research I've found the secret to publishing: Write excellent books. Write lots of them.” — Liana Brooks Copy Share Image
We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust. — Mick Farren Copy Share Image
Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I consider myself a storyteller, not really even an actor. I consider myself a storyteller. — Danny Huston Copy Share Image
Engaging and well paced, the book fills in the reality behind Vonnegut's work — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“One of the most valuable things you can gain from any book is a list of other books that are worth reading.” — Dave Hoover Copy Share Image
The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My understanding is that a book becomes a best seller only when it is pirated, sold on footpaths and at traffic lights. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
If I were a doctor nobody would be inviting me to talk to reservations. I'd be a different person. Writers can influence… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
If I am intuitively led to buy and read a book, what that means is that there is something there that will… — Echo Bodine Copy Share Image
From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
The trap into which all writers have, will, or should fall into, of writing The Great American Watchamacallit, is such an uncluttered… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I was a little press writer when the National Endowment for the Arts came to my rescue and gave me an award.… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I believe the structure of 'House of Leaves' is far more difficult to explain than it is to read. And while I'd… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I've been thinking a lot about why it was so important to me to do The Idiot as a novel, and not… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“I must write about the things of the world with no glazing.” She fought doggedly against the great suction into her own… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Undergraduate writers seem to be, in a way, more open to letting themselves just write. — David Means Copy Share Image
“Only a writer would slap a bumper sticker on her car that read, 'Seriously, I'd rather be working' .” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published? — Chuck Eddy Copy Share Image
I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I must write now and quickly, before I begin to prefer the perfect version that lives in my head.” — Lettie Prell Copy Share Image
Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
“A book is a blessing that comes into our lives to teach, entertain, and inspire.” — Jesenia Sanabia Copy Share Image
He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
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