Maybe our lives are like imperfect novel. Novels that would get very mixed reviews. — MEG WOLITZER Copy Share Image
I feel like I can't write something that has a real emotion in it if I can't connect to that emotion. — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
“Commit yourself to the serious reading of books, and your life will be enlightened.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I wanted to write “I Want” because wanting is one of the things I want most in life.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence. — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Books. They live their own life in melancholy Happy in their crispy destruction under yellowish tinge.” — Raj Doctor Copy Share Image
I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. It is a book known… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Good literature is one key to peace. When we stop reading each other, when we stop paying attention to each other's words… — Dave DiGrazie Copy Share Image
I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing. — William Safire Copy Share Image
Glimpses is dead-on about the high and tight nineties even as it reaches out for the sweet hereafter of the sixties. It… — Frederick Barthelme Copy Share Image
Books have always been living things to me. Some of my encounters with new authors have changed my life a little. When… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
If the White House could do more to tell parents that getting children reading is their business too, we'd see a big… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“Thank you to Steve Iwanski and Turnrow Books for this fantastic review of THE RESURRECTION OF JOAN ASHBY!! Cherise Wolas' debut novel… — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“There were others, such as Jack London,who offered their readers such a respite from the miserable horror of existence that their books… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
The basic thing is to be humble, and pretend you're a bartender in the tavern of life. Don't get too comfortable and… — James McBride Copy Share Image
