As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind… — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
I've heard a lot of editors and agents say, "If the book is good, it will get published." I totally disagree with… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
Life is like a Book of 3 Pages. 1st page is Birth And Last page is Death . Centre page is Empty… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Because I am kind of distracted, I don't tend to sit at my desk 9 to 5. It can be two hours… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
There are those who say life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“We will never ask what a book means, as signified or signifier; we will not look for anything to understand i n… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Write about patriotism, about victory and defeat. Write about revolutions and rebels and prisoners and wars. About emotions, of love and hatred… — Nema Al-Araby Copy Share Image
“I have no feeling of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Books were everywhere in their large apartment. Histories, biographies, novels, studies on Quebec antiques, poetry. Placed in orderly bookcases. Just about every… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it.… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them. — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
“Writing is the best. The writer has the real power. You can create something and the world will be forever indebted to… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
It is difficult to call myself a writer, even when I stand at a podium to receive a prize, I feel uncomfortable… — Murong Xuecun Copy Share Image
Nothing I force myself to write about ever turns out well, and so I've learned to wait for the voice, the incident,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Victoria Roberts spins an exciting Highland tale of intrigue, betrayal, and love with a braw Highland hero and strong English heroine any… — Hannah Howell Copy Share Image
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The greatest compliment I get about my writing is when people say, 'How did you know so much about me?' And of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon,… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Writing is like pulling your hair out. You have nothing, and you can't think of anything, but you have to think of… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
“How can you keep up with her, this woman who is always reading another book besides the one before her eyes, a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
Like skateboarders, writers live by rejection; like writers, any skater worth his salt must have the single-minded tenacity of a wiener dog. — Bret Anthony Johnston Copy Share Image
“After publishing a book, start writing the next. And repeat. Don't get hung up on overmarketing the books, focus more on getting… — Crissi Langwell Copy Share Image
“The mind of the writer invite readers to new worlds, where their darkest fears and greatest joys explode into a tapestry of… — David Smith Copy Share Image
Can fiction teach us? Absolutely. Fiction has the power to illustrate place, era, and atmosphere in vivid detail. But it is not… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I really spend as long as I can sketching everything out and working on the structure before I sit down to type… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
“If I have to wait, I read; if I wake in the night, I feel along the shelf for a book. Swelling,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
It's nice being married to someone who likes to read because you can indulge in geeky conversations about books. — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books. — Jackie French Copy Share Image
“I like reading and all that, but a crave to get back to the life of my infancy and all its freedom.… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
If you get discouraged about a section of a novel, that can be more catastrophic than getting discouraged about an individual story. — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
