“When people starts to enjoy a writer's pen, he becomes a legend even if his stories are neither long nor publicly surrounded… — A. Saleh Copy Share Image
It has long been my boast that I can read or eat anything. But unfortunately, although I eat like a Hoover, I… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
A novel is a collision of ideas. Three or four threads may be floating around in the writer's consciousness, and at a… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
The way that I process and make writing work is I'm really telling true stories; I'm just putting them in a cape… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was “Everything… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I like to express certain things that happen in my life, the joy of spring, the birds singing and young babies coming… — Roy Haynes Copy Share Image
When interviewing for a job, tell the editor how you love to report. How your passion is gathering information. Do not mention… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
“The bookstore is a building, but it's not only the building. It is the books inside. People are not only their bodies.… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
Only when all children are in a book-loving environment will they achieve literacy, yes, but a lot more: a confidence in handling… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“A book is finished when it does not want me to work on it any longer...it reaches a point when it feels… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then the books themselves inform… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I usually don't write at night, but there are times where I wake up at 3 in the morning and write all night. — John Searles Copy Share Image
“Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Fenworth owned a world-famous library. More rooms held books than beds. Pillows stuffed in niches and comfortable chairs scattered throughout each room… — Donita K. Paul Copy Share Image
That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Sylvie’s knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, ‘The sign that one has acquired one’s learning from reading novels rather than an… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
you pay a price for the 'gift' of an active imagination. While mine played a major part in making me a writer,… — Jean Little Copy Share Image
There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“However great a man's natural talent may be, the art of writing cannot be learned all at once. Jean-Jaeques Rousseau” — Jean-Jaeques Rousseau Copy Share Image
What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet. — John Updike Copy Share Image
[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There are those who write because they believe they have something so marvelous that it will make them famous and wealthy, a… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
The student may read Homer or Ãâ schylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that hein… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
People always say, 'Write what you know', but I've always found that to be terrible advice. It's quite limiting, what you know. — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I had decided to become a bookseller because I loved good books. I assumed there must be many others who shared a… — Stuart Brent Copy Share Image
I think the book business is really sitting on the greatest moment in the history of time. We are providing the stories… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
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