Two things a novelist can do with a hat: Talk through it or pull a rabbit from it. — Peter S. Prescott Copy Share Image
Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves. — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library. — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have a book in me, but I'm sure I have more essays. — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
“The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author,” — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper. — Julien Green Copy Share Image
I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
As a little girl, I used to write stories, but by my teenage years, I got out of the habit. — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
You open doors when you open books... doors that swing wide to unlimited horizons of knowledge, wisdom, and inspiration that will enlarge… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books. They impress us with the conviction, that one… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
“Writing, in its noblest function, is the attempt to unerase, to unearth, to find the primitive picture again, ours, the one that… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“... except when I get down and write...then I let my imagination go to places I never knew existed and my characters… — Mark Alders Copy Share Image
The moment of writing is not an escape...it is only an insistence, through the imagination, upon human ecstasy, and a reminder that… — Larry Levis Copy Share Image
In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Gemmell's name guarantees a satisfying story and a thumping good read. I recommend all his heroic creations - 'Druss the axeman,' 'the… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
If I'm writing by intuition, generally that calculation works itself out. But if I'm writing a mystery, and somebody has to have… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“Excuse me? she sent. What’s this all about? She looked around suspiciously, but the library was full of Auradon students diligently working… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen. — Jack London Copy Share Image
When someone asks me now, "What do you do?" I will be able to say, "I am a writer." — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I was never born to write. I was taught to write. And I am still being taught to write. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international. — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
“Each tombstone was like the cover of a book that had been sealed forever.” — Marina Nemat Copy Share Image
“In 1994, the average person spent $79 on books as compared to $56 on recorded music.” — Richard L. Brandt Copy Share Image
I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
