Brandon Sanderson is the real thing-an exciting storyteller with a unique and powerful vision. ELANTRIS is one of the finest debuts I've… — David Farland Copy Share Image
Every so often, when I am feeling plucky, I try to write a screenplay that combines all 10 of Americans' top phobias… — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Julie Orringer is the real thing, a breathtaking chronicler of the secrets and cruelties underneath the surface of middle-class American life. These… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
If bread be what you seek O little mice, Go to some other shelf is my advice; But if upon my books… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
For me, a memoir is supposed to be understood as a representation of your life, whereas a novel is self-consciously symbolic. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Also, there is a dedicated community of people in the world who will always be able to connect with each other across… — Nina George Copy Share Image
“You have to be careful what you write and not allow self righteousness to cloud your ability to be objective. This story… — Crystal Evans Copy Share Image
'Writer's block' sounds so dramatic and worrisome, and I don't worry about it. I know deep down that I'm a writer, and… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
A rollicking good read-THE HUNTER is steampunk with a Wild West feel. Theresa Meyers is an entertaining and witty writer with a… — Yasmine Galenorn Copy Share Image
“To enjoy and learn from what you read you must understand the meanings of the words a writer uses. You do yourself… — Charles Harrington Elster Copy Share Image
We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Don't people know that it's the hardest work in the world? Joseph Conrad said that he had loaded hundredweights of coal all… — Mary Lee Settle Copy Share Image
I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit… — Frank Lampard Copy Share Image
“Editing is a kind of creative activity where, in a perfect world, an author and an editor find that elusive oneness to… — Sahara Sanders Copy Share Image
VLife comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Writers' rooms are terrifying. You take someone whose never done this before, and this is their life's dream that is about to… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
I grew up loving books and stories. Reading became my favourite pastime, and you have to be a reader before you can… — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The greatest compliment that anyone can pay me is that after I say something, they remember it. I'll go over a piece… — Casey Kasem Copy Share Image
I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little Sister.' I fell in love with Chandler that… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
Some day I'll write a book and call it 'How I Got the Nickname Pumpsie' and sell it for one dollar, and… — Pumpsie Green Copy Share Image
Scripture has always been a part of my life. My dad was a pastor. My mother was a speaker, writer, and teacher.… — Gloria Gaither Copy Share Image
Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend...a book that, at a touch, pours its heart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
We do not truly own our thoughts or experiences until we have negotiated them with ourselvesand for this writing is the prime… — Carl Bereiter Copy Share Image
We all know that reading is an invaluable life skill. It is vital for children in their education and as they take… — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall Copy Share Image
“Most people enter a library and don’t hear a thing. Eerie silence. I stand between the shelves and hear ten thousand conversations… — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
My family was all police and hard hats at the refineries; they didn't know what to think about me. So I became… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural… — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended… — Ken Bruen Copy Share Image
I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics.… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional critic, then what point is… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
You think you're writing the most important book, you think you're writing the most stupid book, and you never really know before… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people.… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
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