Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was 9. My mother told me it was before that, but that was the first I remember. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
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Life's harder, the deeper you feel things, was all I could think as I put the books away. Feelings, who needs them?… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that's not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the… — David Pogue Copy Share Image
“Literature has the ability to open up a whole new world to children, but we need to have a share in helping… — Carmela Dutra Copy Share Image
It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
We've clearly entered a period in which the analog of text is no longer important or relevant. All text will be electronic.… — Will Self Copy Share Image
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“Novel writing, I soon discovered, is like channel swimming: a slow and steady stroke over a long distance in a cold, dark… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Only now, years after having read though the works of Shakespeare, Dickens, Scott, Poe, Balzac did he realise that even the most… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“It is an awesome tragedy in this life that, when asking what a person is and they reply doctor or lawyer or… — D.A. Botta Copy Share Image
Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
I write weird stories. I don't know why I like weirdness so much ... But when I write, I write weird. That's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I always wrote. I've written stories since I was 9. We didn't have a computer at home, but my aunt Magda had… — Xavier Dolan Copy Share Image
“Reading has shaped me, guided me, reflected me and helped me understand and connect with, and this is not hyperbole, HUMANITY.” — Annie Spence Copy Share Image
I use to read the double X L, now I'm on the front cover double X L. But they don't wanna see… — Cyhi Da Prynce Copy Share Image
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the ready, waiting to be explored.” — J.F Hermann Copy Share Image
“Francis Bacon once remarked that “some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not! I can't not write; if I don't, then I… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
My writing circle isn't too full of people who fall into the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Tuesdays With Morrie"… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
I wrote a lot of 'A Time to Kill' at the State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., hiding in little committee rooms, killing… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
When journalism is silenced, literature must speak. Because while journalism speaks with facts, literature speaks with truth. — Seno Gumira Ajidarma Copy Share Image
I couldn't be happier to have found a home at Dialogue Books for my debut novel 'The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
I'd rather that people could be both entertained and given rest while reading my book than for someone to have to put… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
“The truth is, when I'm immersed in a book I'm less aware of the pain in my unpredictable arms and legs.” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
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I have to have a story I really want to tell, and then it makes sense to put things out there. So… — Zoya Akhtar Copy Share Image
I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own. — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
