It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Life is a book evryday is a new page and every month is a new chapter and every year is a new… — Mee Copy Share Image
Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Writing has got to be an act of discovery…I write to find out what I'm thinking about. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Books ... rarely, if ever, talk about what children can make of themselves, about the powers that from the day or moment… — John Holt Copy Share Image
I don't consider writing a quiet, closet act. I consider it a real physical act. When I'm home writing on the typewriter,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“Fueled by the need to interpret the past, to explore the present, and to imagine the future, each generation shapes the world… — Pawan Mishra Copy Share Image
Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Do you write every day?' 'Oh, no. Oh, I sort of try. I don't work very hard, really. Really I'm on vacation.… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
“The novelist Umberto Eco famously kept what the writer Nassim Taleb called an “anti-library,” a vast collection of books he had not… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
All over the world, there are libraries of a sort. They are among the most beautiful places on the earth, and they… — Brock Adams Copy Share Image
“With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket.… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
In the war time many of the publishing houses were privately owned, a single publisher or a publisher and a few associates… — James Salter Copy Share Image
I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone. — Barbara Feldon Copy Share Image
My second novel, "Good Benito", was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
No human being who wants to read and own a book should ever have to go on a bended knee to get… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
“A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend.” — Douglas Jerrod Copy Share Image
“Books are only half our job ; the other half is human nature.” — Mary Virginia Provines Copy Share Image
Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
I read two to three books a day anyway (I only sleep about two hours a night, and I read really fast). — Violet Duke Copy Share Image
Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
One day people asked to me why are you read,learn so much I said just I feel my lov when I read… — Suraj Ary Copy Share Image
