“Books are everything; Refreshing and amazing. What would a world have to be, without something to read?” — Mikaylah Hansen Copy Share Image
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and… — Bohumil Hrabal Copy Share Image
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
So be sure to remember that, Before making his / yourself an example of personality and honesty, tomorrow someone will write your… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“Today was so pointless that when I tried to write about it a moment ago, my pen ran out because it couldn't… — Tim Collins Copy Share Image
People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal… — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Books are important, and so serious intellectual attention to them is important. While promplty published scholarly articles are also important, the book… — Jeffrey C. Issac Editor-in-Chief Perspectives on Politics 12 2013 Copy Share Image
“A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Research serves fiction best when it's dissolved entirely into the work, reprecipitated only to be embodied in characters, images, and the sensual… — Christopher Beha Copy Share Image
“The Library was outmoded and archaic—it had been so even in Ebling Mis's time—but that was all to the good. Pelorat always… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Objectifying your own novel while writing it never really helps. Instead, I guess while you're writing you need to think: This is… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
You're reluctant to give too much away when you're going to put it out there for other people. It's harder writing your… — Kathleen Edwards Copy Share Image
“I keep writing and rewriting, drawing and redrawing, and rethinking and revising and reediting. It became my grieving ceremony.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I'm sure that I'll never have another success like Harry Potter for the rest of my life, no matter how many books… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“I hope people of the future will remember my books for being burned, and I challenge an elite few to imagine the… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say. — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
Our minds are shaped by the books we read. Our characters, by the people we meet. Our spirits by the love we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We definitely need to give so much more importance, relevance, pay, glory to the writers because they are really the backbone of… — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
Being in the public eye is easy for me because I come from a family of four generations of teachers, so I'm… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Being an author is fun. It's a great job, because I can stay up as late as I want, and if I… — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
“Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.” — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
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“Writing Frank was a little cathartic, since it gave me the chance to climb on my soapbox and expose readers to a… — Bru Baker Copy Share Image
“If I may paraphrase Hobbes 's well-known aphorism, I would say that 'books are the money of Literature, but only the counters… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
I like to write early in the morning, like, 5 a.m. If I'm really on my game, I don't have any coffee… — Travis Morrison Copy Share Image
I don't plan my books. I don't know what's going to happen. That's why I could pick up any one of my… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
“Half of what I write is garbage, but if I don’t get it down on paper it decomposes in my head. This… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
