Books are a better investment in our future than bullets. Books, not bullets, will pave the path towards peace and prosperity. — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
When a good friend gives you his or her book, you don't want to read it, because you're afraid that it's not… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“To be a successful fiction writer you have to write well, write a lot … and let ‘em know you’ve written it!… — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
When you are writing a memoir, you have the advantage of knowing how it all ends. It's just taking your life apart… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads,… — George V Higgins Copy Share Image
Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page,… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
When you write a book, and you argue a problem is complicated and multidimensional, it's very easy to read a slice of… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
If you write an original, it's like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, it's… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
Girlchild . . . unfolds a compelling, layered narrative told by a protagonist with a voice so fresh, original, and funny you'll… — Mameve Medwed Copy Share Image
Those of us who obsess over every word and action are constantly recalling past events, but that doesn't make them any less… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
“I cannot have a sufficiency of books. Indeed, I have more than I should... Books give utter delight: they talk with us...… — Francesco Petrarca Copy Share Image
I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I run my fingers down the spines of old books and ancient tales. I smell the ink and feel the pages as… — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
For the kind of places I've written for and the kind of writing that I've done, the general way to think about… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
I think one of the keys to better writing is releasing all of your ideas and to not be afraid. Dream big.… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
In the case of 'Goon Squad,' which sold slowly for a long time despite the good reviews, those 'best of 2010' lists… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
If you want to be a good writer, make sure you read. I'm amazed by how many people don't bother to do… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I knew early on that I was going to be a writer. I think it's something rather like a curse that you're… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
My childhood library was small enough not to be intimidating. And yet I felt the whole world was contained in those two… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I am only one-eighth the writer I might have been had I contained all the fragmented languages of Trinidad. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When I read a book, I like to be surprised. I don't want to read the same genre formula that I've read… — Chet Williamson Copy Share Image
I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“Maybe… they are stocking high schools across the country with hot young librarians as part of a massive literacy initiative.” — Michelle Knudsen Copy Share Image
You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not,… — Louis Malle Copy Share Image
The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book,… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
“It’s not lit, it’s literature. Lit is something a book can be, after you’ve decided to burn it. (I suggest you start… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
A friend is a book that needs to be read to find its inner beauty. You're one of the best books ever… — Jeigh Ilano Copy Share Image
