I like to think - knowing that it's an enabling fiction - of those moments as fragments from a world to come,… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“Stella scribbled in thick black texta across half the pages of my best storybook, filled with people who ventured where their hearts… — Emma Cameron Copy Share Image
“That day I saw you at the library, after we talked at the bus stop. That day I saw you at the… — Jay McLean Copy Share Image
I had a Kindle for a brief while, but I dropped it in the ocean, and that was the end of electronic… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
“A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library.” — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
I had the idea of a boy who was a wizard and didn't yet know what he was. I never sat down… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I write what feels real. I write things that are informed both by my own experience and by actual history. — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
For so long I didn't have any kind of readership at all - I'd get published, but not read - the idea… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
When I go to buy a book, I always ask if it is right for me at this time, something I need… — Echo Bodine Copy Share Image
Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
If the item of stolen property had been anything other than a book, it would have been confiscated. But a book is… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create,… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I always hope that readers, of my books, will take away whatever is most meaningful to them wherever they are at right… — Tosca Lee Copy Share Image
When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
I've not got any terrible stories of what I had to do to scrabble my way to the top, obviously, because I… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
“The old nut goes, 'Write what you know,' but often a writer is clearer about what he doesn't know and must learn… — Susan Bell Copy Share Image
I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
Writing talent is similar to the art of chatting up a girl. You can improve to a certain degree through practice, but… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever… — Cal Ripken, Jr Copy Share Image
The Next Right Thing has humanity, humor, and insight to burn. Author Dan Barden takes the clay of the California hard-boiled novel… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“He was a professor, a lover of stories, and he was building her a library in the same way other men might… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book;… — Paula Danziger Copy Share Image
Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be… But that's the fun of writing a novel… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm really not one of these procrastinators who cleans the house in order to put off writing, but life gets in the… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“. . . this girl who seemed, increasingly, to be interested in learning to read everything except how human beings talked to one another.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
As a writer, you understand how hard it is to build up backstory for characters, so you can have impactful moments. You… — Cory Barlog Copy Share Image
“Writing is a lonely are at times, we spend so much of our time locked in a room and never know if… — Hubert Selby Jr Copy Share Image
What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with… — Saib Tabrizi Copy Share Image
Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
It's more important to get the right writer and the right take than it is to do something in a particular timeframe. — Gale Anne Hurd Copy Share Image
