“Agents don’t sell books, good writing does. Plotting and characterization are what interest an editor. Agents negotiate contracts, but they don’t sell… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
I marveled at how they were all closed up, asleep with their secrets unseen until you reached up and took the book… — Deborah Lawrenson Copy Share Image
I write with pen and paper. I don't have a mobile or computer, because I know how great they are. If I… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
Only thanks to blissful ignorance, and the inspiration of my grandparents' story, did I actually believe tackling a novel would be an… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
Words are the essence of culture. Books are pure essence. They are not for women or for men, but for all of… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
Picture books have terrible PR amongst the children of this country. Ask any librarian: after a certain age, children just aren't interested… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
I'm not sure which I dislike more: 'Ulysses' or the James Joyce estate. Admittedly, a few people have got some pleasure from… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
“When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter what you read. What matters is you read. Whether it’s Tolstoy or Twilight, Kierkegaard or Betty and Veronica, keep… — Trent Zelazny Copy Share Image
I love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the… — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
“A writer’s life is half ambition and half anxiety, and there has to be both. It is no good writing a novel… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“How well worn they all were..."Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I think one of the problems with being a fiction writer these days is that you can't keep up with the headlines.… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is like running a marathon. Selling one is like building a castle. You gotta do it one brick at… — Charles R. Hall Copy Share Image
Everyone is so different. I sometimes wish I wrote in a different way. You know, that feeling of: So-and-so writes slowly, if… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
If a book isn't teaching me something, pulling something out of me, then it will be dull for me and the reader. — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
Why did I write? whose sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
My father, whose hobby was collecting secondhand cricket books, came back from a book fair one day with a copy of 'The… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to revise usually signals an amateur. — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
You don't have to be the most amazing writer, you don't have to get top marks in your English GCSE, you just… — Steph McGovern Copy Share Image
I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“They say the content and the cover are the most important things when it comes to a book or a novel, right?… — Jimmy Tudeski Copy Share Image
It's interesting when you write something for somebody else, and then you're like, 'Oh man, I just laid my whole trip on… — LP Copy Share Image
A Touch of Crimson explodes with passion and heat. A hot, sexy angel to die for and a gutsy heroine make for… — Cheyenne McCray Copy Share Image
What I really care about is writing... Some people feel about touring the way I feel about writing, which is, 'Whoa, I… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
“BUILDING A SUCCESSFUL BRAND IS CONVINCING THE FULL BELLY THAT IT IS STILL HUNGRY AND HAS ROOM FOR MORE. BE, THE MORE… — Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier Copy Share Image
Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when… — Kate Thompson Copy Share Image
“She lays the book face down on her chest. Already her bedroom (no, their bedroom) feels more densely inhabited, more actual, because… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want." Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
“There's not that much known, but there's a lot you can write about what's not known, why it isn't known and who… — Richard Ellis Copy Share Image
After a while, if you're a writer, you want to start appearing in the bookstores of the place you're living in. — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
