“the Times reported last week that reading literary fiction increases one’s empathy and emotional intelligence.” — Kelly Luce Copy Share Image
A HUMAN ELEMENT is an elegant and haunting first novel. Unrelenting, devious but full of heart. Highly recommended. — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
Life is like a book. Some are sad, some are happy, and some exciting. But if we never turn the page, we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“Being a writer is all about having something to say. And it’d better be interesting. If you don’t have anything interesting to… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“There is no book you can read or friend you can talk to that will make you ready for the moment when… — Sophie Oak Copy Share Image
“To write an excellent novel, make the outcome of the story matter to the reader through the evolving relationships between well-designed characters.” — Martin Sandforth Copy Share Image
When you're a writer, if you're very lucky, you create these characters that you fall in love with, and you feel like… — Janet Varney Copy Share Image
“I often think publishing a book is like doing a poo. Once it's ready for the world, you have to relinquish that… — H.O. Charles Copy Share Image
I'm not a boy-writer, I've never been. I wanted to be a boy-writer when I was young, and I think that held… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“These books can’t possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Even though I had a deep conviction that I was good at writing, and that in some way I already was a… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“I have always wanted to record my daily life and personal thoughts, but I didn’t have the chance because the Priest never… — Mark Mulle Copy Share Image
They will be given as gifts; books that are especially pretty or visual will be bought as hard copies; books that are… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I had real concerns about the relationship between nature and culture and places I wanted to write about... I thought, well, maybe… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
The thing is, I've always written things not knowing if it was ever going to get put on stage, and it would… — Celine Song Copy Share Image
Of course I consider myself a Jewish writer - I am one! All of the protagonists in my five books have been… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
“Lily told her about what had happened so far. (If you're interested, you can go back to the beginning of the book… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort… — Victoria Glendinning Copy Share Image
I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization,… — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
I like revising much, much better than getting down a first draft. The first draft is just getting the pieces to the… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“Talk away. If you bore us, we have books." With this invitation Rickie began to relate his history. The reader who has… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
But it isn’t a rough draft either. The one I turned in several months ago was rough. There were some bad plot… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Writers say two things that strike me as nonsense. One is that you must follow an absolute schedule everyday. If you're not… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I liked being with the books: they reminded me of how many ways of thinking existed outside my own - how small… — Joanna Rossiter Copy Share Image
The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With luck, a writer capable of producing both Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb will not remain unappreciated for… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
We do seem, as a culture, to fetishize the "sweep." But I know there's room for "big" short, fierce novels, and "big"… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“70 out of 100 people in the world cannot read... if you can read then you are the luckiest out of 2… — Call Bain Copy Share Image
Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket. — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of… — Paul Westerberg Copy Share Image
