I didn't have to keep a bloody journal. It's terribly boring keeping a journal anyway. I hate it. You spend more time… — Christopher Plummer Copy Share Image
I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When you're making a print book in 2012, I actually think the onus is on you - and on your publisher -… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: No, no, no. You have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Why write if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bullfighting risk and we… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“How well worn they all were..."Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter what you read. What matters is you read. Whether it’s Tolstoy or Twilight, Kierkegaard or Betty and Veronica, keep… — Trent Zelazny Copy Share Image
“When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of things in writing in general that are subtle, that suggest something without actually in-your-face saying it. And… — Nina Nastasia Copy Share Image
Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“been forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby-Dick — largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and responsible for Melville's drop in popularity… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever have trouble with writer's block. It's different when you make it up as you go - that… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise,… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
People once said they were "in" psychoanalysis, meaning they were committed to a long immersion. In a sense, they were writing their… — R Z Sheppard Copy Share Image
“Burn the book. It serves you once. Read the book. Serves you for a lifetime. Lend the book. It serves for generations… — Kowtham Kumar K Copy Share Image
Supposedly, some writers work in rowdy coffee shops or compose whole novels to Megadeth, but when I write, I wear a pair… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
It's just writing about things, feelings, not that we're dark or depressed...just as much as anyone else is. — Layne Staley Copy Share Image
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And Sarah still looked like the sexiest librarian on earth, which is as those of you who frequent libraries know means very… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Now I'll read anytime, anywhere. I love reading in front of the space heater. Isn't that a sad confession? But it's like… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I never assign a product to a writer unless I know that he is personally interested in it. Every time I have… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
When I present or speak, I write the slides myself. And regarding time, I would like to be able to publish more… — Padmasree Warrior Copy Share Image
My son Saif is an avid reader. He points me to books worth reading. I also must do the Indian Express crossword… — Sharmila Tagore Copy Share Image
The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“No serious book lover will ever die having read every book he has managed to collect. This is not a sign of… — James V. Schall Copy Share Image
I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar. — Mickey Spillane Copy Share Image
Mother Dolores Hart's prose is a reflection of the inner beauty she has always possessed. A fascinating read... and read again! — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
Hemingway was very sparse in his writing. Kris Kristofferson is like that. He can take four words and say it all. — Todd Snider Copy Share Image
I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
