There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction. — Catherine Jinks Copy Share Image
To write anything decent, it's hard. Anything you want to be good is hard. — Sean Lock Copy Share Image
To me one of the most important things is launching a children's book division. — Maria Rodale Copy Share Image
My creator owned books sell better than my mainstream books. And that makes no sense. — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore. — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“The beauty of writing is imagining new endings to a time of darkness, like burning off a morning fog with the heat… — J.J. Brown Copy Share Image
Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games,… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“But I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write,… — Sean Connery Copy Share Image
I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to… — Catherine Mayer Copy Share Image
“Take joy in your digressions. Because that is where the unexpected arises. That is the experimental aspect. If you know where you… — Brian Massumi Copy Share Image
The book has very specific qualities. Let's say in 2300 they discover the physical book, after having lived with the digital book… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
In eleven or twelve years of writing, Mike, I can lay claim to at least this: I have never written beneath myself.… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Hannah Tinti writes with uncommon grace and stunning insight. Her quirky tribe of outcasts will break into your dreams and steal your… — Melanie Rae Thon Copy Share Image
All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“The creative writer is compulsively concrete . . . . His fictional house should be haunted by ideas, not inhabited by them;… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own. — Joanna Kerns Copy Share Image
“But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately.” — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again. — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine. — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age. — P. J. Harvey Copy Share Image
The different books I read till now seems to look Total waste, When I put my first step in Real Life.ª — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
