“how can I write about this when I am afraid of not having time to finish and of stirring up all these… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in… — David Hare Copy Share Image
Write your feeling like resentment and problems to the piece of paper, to remove the heavy feeling in your heart. — Mitch Alapan Copy Share Image
“Paranormal suspense and romance together in one non-stop rollercoaster of passion and adventure. - Love Romance Passion” — Terry Spear Copy Share Image
I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way… — Al Seckel Copy Share Image
Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Trying to achieve an error-free manuscript is almost like trying to fly to the moon on a paper airplane.” — Jon Michael Riley Copy Share Image
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
“From the judge who lifted the Philadelphia ban on Never Love a Stranger, on Harold’s books: “I would rather my daughter learn… — Harold Robbins Copy Share Image
I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“..reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I want to keep growing as a writer. I find myself doing unexpected projects and sort of challenging my idea of where… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
There are many books that I love dearly, and I've seen many televised or film recreations that I just haven't thought were… — Essie Davis Copy Share Image
“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways.… — Victoria Connelly Copy Share Image
“Writing is like surfing on a wild sea, in the middle of a moonless night, in a hailstorm, on a deserted island.… — Heena Rathore P Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Most writers seem to prefer the morning, or they feel at their best in the morning. Ideas are popping into your head… — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
Most books are surplus to the world's requirements, and I am going to sound very conceited here, but I am trying to… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
“I know from personal experience that readers lead richer lives, more lives, than those who don’t read.” — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them… — Ludwig Bemelmans Copy Share Image
People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the… — Gillian Cross Copy Share Image
Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our… — Louise Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things. — James Salter Copy Share Image
A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Talking to Lee Child and discovering, from his chapter in The Chopin Manuscript, that he's even more of an audio geek than… — David Hewson Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I'm able to write books and still carry on with other work is that I do my best… — Catherine Mayer Copy Share Image
A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional… — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
Reading and writing... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect... I have to say… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
“Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life--at least all the stuff that fits between an… — Abelardo Morell Copy Share Image
We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and… — David L. Ulin Copy Share Image
