The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place. — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
“A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style. — Eric Van Lustbader Copy Share Image
You know, that's kind of the thing, I can't freestyle and I used to always wonder why I couldn't, and when I… — Bubba Sparxxx Copy Share Image
I write in quite a simple way because that's just the way I write. The vocab I use is quite wee. That's… — Limmy Copy Share Image
“Never place your punch at the beginning of a column nor at the end. Sneak it in where it's least expected. Fill… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Writing is like breathing underwater. It's really hard to do unless you can imagine yourself a nice set of gills.” — Alane Adams Copy Share Image
Anyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers… — Kirby Wright Copy Share Image
When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up… — S. E. Hinton Copy Share Image
Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to… — A. E. van Vogt Copy Share Image
“Here was the world-famous novelist with her penchant for detail; yet, in her observations of a prostitute with a customer, she had… — John Irving Copy Share Image
There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
One of the jobs of a writer is to add nuance and ambiguity to that straight line that people often draw to… — John Green Copy Share Image
I'm a writer. In Latin America, they say I'm a Latin-American writer because I also write in Spanish and my books are… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The best piece of advice I ever received about being a writer came from my brother Lee. I was just starting out… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
“My advice to a budding literary critic would be as follows. Learn to distinguish banality. Remember that mediocrity thrives on "ideas." Beware… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
For me, a good children's book is a good children's book is a good children's book. — LeVar Burton Copy Share Image
Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“The ultimate function of a book, however, is to be read, not to be looked or picked at.” — Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon. Afterword to The Restored Finnegans Wake Copy Share Image
“You are not a story, your life is a story and you are the writer, write an inspiring one.” — Drishti Bablani, Wordions Copy Share Image
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt. — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“What happens in my next chapter depends on whether I wake up feeling creative or murderous.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
“You can’t know someone’s story without reading the pages of their book.” — Portia Moore Copy Share Image
There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
