But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
“In its published form, this book is being read, I assume, in the first years of 2000 A.D. (1935 plus eighty or… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
A good novelist pays attention to his characters. A good biographer pays attention to the documents before her. A good critic pays… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we… — James Merrill Copy Share Image
As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first. — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul,… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
The reason why I began making quilts is because I wrote my autobiography in 1980 and couldn't get it published because I… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
My mind wanders terribly. I'm not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to me as regards imaginative… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“I heartily respect and appreciate when people say their life is quite eventful. There are chapters in the book of life. Some… — Rachana Shakyawar Copy Share Image
If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In the university library, we know when a book has been used in a class or put on reserve... or while it… — David Weinberger Copy Share Image
“...books change lives, in big ways and small, from the simple desire to spend a few quiet hours in a comfy chair,… — Roxanne J. Coady Copy Share Image
“The faint aroma of gum and calico that hangs about a library is as the fragrance of incense to me. I think… — R K Narayan Copy Share Image
You don't need to go to a therapist, you don't need to do all kinds of things. If you want to write,… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Ive always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
Co-writing is a very unnatural feeling. It's like wanting to document a feeling that you have and then trying to get someone… — Kathleen Edwards Copy Share Image
“A person that doesn't read and doesn't have any ethics complaining about a writer feels like a Chihuahua barking at a Rottweiler.” — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“She’s been reading too much, he thought -had drifted across that line that separated what you might find in a book from… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
“To write a lot, you should rethink your mental models of rejection and publication. Rejections are like a sales tax on publications:… — Paul J. Silvia Copy Share Image
I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work. — Jim Goldberg Copy Share Image
I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I have not muddled through my… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent,… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
We try to write things that can be interpreted on lots of different levels. There's not a right way or a wrong… — Danny Carey Copy Share Image
I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write. — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
