There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel. — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
“Reading had never let me down before. It had always been the one sure thing.” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life. — Zoe Cassavetes Copy Share Image
Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
I love writing novels, even if only a few thousand people read them. Here's my soul; I hope it appeals to your… — Mark O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
'Mystic River' just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Novels with a "thesis" don't interest me. They just don't - novels that want to "show" something, that want to "argue" something… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
“As a writer, one spends a lifetime journeying into the heart of language, trying to minimize, if not eliminate, the distance between… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would write while inspired and sometimes I would write through sheer force of will, and in revision the writing that… — Jesse Michaels Copy Share Image
Don't think of Diana Vreeland's memoir as a book; it's more like a lunch. A bit of souffle, a glass of champagne,… — Cathleen McGuigan Copy Share Image
If you focus on literature through only one small element of it, like the more scientific element of linguistics, then where is… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“Autobiographical writing stands as lasting memorial for enduring the travails of an earthly life. Writing is an apt technique to score our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Had I mentioned to someone around 1795 that I planned to write, anyone with any sense would have told me to write… — Enrique Vila-Matas Copy Share Image
Please, no matter how we advance technologically , please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Lyra at eighteen sitting intent and absorbed in Duke Humfrey’s Library with the alethiometer and a pile of leather-bound books. Tucking the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
When you find a chillness upon your souls, and that your former heat begins to abate, ply yourselves with warm clothes, get… — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
