I hate [ebooks]. It's like making believe there's another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of sex. There isn't another kind… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside. — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
When writing a novel, I'm not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don't know what it is. — John Irving Copy Share Image
“If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
When it comes to actually writing the book/story, I work on a computer. I wish I could write longhand, but I can't. — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's… — Angel Olsen Copy Share Image
Safe from the Neighbors is a novel of unusual richness and depth, one that's as wise about the small shocks within a… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Supporting a family and financial necessity aside, what I want is to read it and just have that feeling in your chest… — Shannyn Sossamon Copy Share Image
“It is a long journey, not just as a writer, but as a human being. Take nothing and no one for granted,… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
My adrenaline started pumping anytime I was within a hundred yards of a bookshop. I loved books nearly as much as I… — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are books that I own that somehow even without reading them they mean something to me. So I think people have… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book,… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“The book looked doomed, assailed on all sides by those who'd see it superseded by the synthetic-new and those who didn't give… — Charlie Hill Copy Share Image
I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
That's what I love about writing is you don't need anyone's permission to do it. You can just get up in the… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
I always knew I'd be leaving government someday. I just didn't know when. There was something about knowing that it was temporary… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Russell Brand has announced that he plans to write a series of children's books. First up: 'Horton Hears a Heroin Dealer.' — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
“By all means," said Richard. "Let's talk about something other than books. Something safer. Like politics or religion.” — Charlie Hill Copy Share Image
I'm comfortable having a specific audience to write to. I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as… — Dave Sim Copy Share Image
People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits? — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Keep writing, dreaming and creating. There are no boundaries to your imagination. Writers are gifts to the world.” — C. Toni Graham Copy Share Image
I don't have as tight a time limit anymore but I still write in long marathon sessions and then I won't write… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“She had discovered with surprise and pleasure that as she turned each page, the book was written, as if for the first… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
'The Five People You Meet in Heaven' by Mitch Albom - I read it in eight hours and blubbed my eyes out… — Poppy Delevingne Copy Share Image
“Books and characters in books, pictures and elements in pictures—they all have families and ancestors, just like people.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Read day and night, devour books—these sleeping pills—not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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