Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
I had thought up the title, 'The Good Luck of Right Now,' several years ago. I had no idea what it meant… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Reading, at the deepest level, is a physical experience. Most people are not attuned to this, most people don't learn how to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Do you read books?” Dr. Weiss asked her in one of her session with him. She nodded in acceptance. Her lips were… — Himanshu Chhabra Copy Share Image
“year-old J.D. Vance would have considered ludicrous. But about two hundred people do the same thing every year, and trust me, you… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
It wasn't a case of me sitting down and thinking, right then, what shall I do with my life? Airline pilot? Plumber?… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
“Eating words and listening to them rumbling in the gut is how a writer learns the acid and alkali of language. It… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“There was something about the possession of a book that was important to me. Owning it gave me proprietary rights on the… — Georgia Bell Copy Share Image
I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only… — John Green Copy Share Image
I type 90 words per minute on the typewriter; I type 100 words per minute on the word processor. But, of course,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
It's hard enough to make a novel a novel. I wouldn't know how to make it something else at the same time — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
I am gonna write a book about my life, that way at least I will get paid for people being in my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show -… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a fiction reader, let alone creative… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
Sure.” Olivia smirked. “Good ol’ New York Public Library. I’m sure it’s up to date on the latest Demons that escape through… — Cheyenne McCray Copy Share Image
One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
[When] you're a writer, you know that a lot of times you have to sneak up on yourself in order to achieve… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
“I step straight toward the female librarian. She looks soft, as if she's been raised in a box and purely milk-fed, like… — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
The more I have written, the less it has been about exploring myself, and the more it has been about exploring the… — Nick McDonell Copy Share Image
I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
I'm still undisciplined in the fact that I'm not writing anything down. I just get these lines and start piecing it together… — Adam Granduciel Copy Share Image
My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online. — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
“Anyone who finds himself incapable of grasping the complexities of a work hides his withdrawal behind the most superficial pretext because he… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'High Stakes,' I followed the classical format. I wrote an outline first, then a first draft, then got feedback… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
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