Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter. — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“I am a writer because I write, an author because I create, a poet because the words are in my soul.” — Wesley D. Gray Copy Share Image
“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of a good book.” — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer! — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
The library is…a university of the people, from which the students are never graduated. — Katharine Sharp Copy Share Image
“Memoirs? No, we want a how-to book. For spies.” “A how-to book?! A book can’t teach someone how to be equal parts… — It Books Copy Share Image
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Because there is a belief that once you begin to open books, you will become a better person. It is Pandora's box,… — Don Borchert Copy Share Image
Oh, very well, do you want to know why I really think you should keep a journal?" She nodded. "Because someday you're… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none… — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
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Novels–and memoirs–are perhaps the most comprehensive reports humans can deliver, of their private experiences, to other humans. In these terms there is… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
My first book was called, 'Mountain, Get Out of My Way,' where I did an autobiographical sketch, if you will, looking back… — Montel Williams Copy Share Image
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“When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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Both Proust and Joyce record the ways in which human perspectives can be transformed. In Portrait, Stephen Dedalus is constantly undergoing epiphanies,… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A singer knows how he wants the song to go, and a writer visualizes how he wants the song to go. — Dennis Edwards Copy Share Image
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. — Martin Lewis Perl Copy Share Image
Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
I always loved writing, but never considered that I could do it professionally. — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important. — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
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