A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Literature is a far more ancient and viable thing than any social formation or state. And just as the state interferes in… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations… — M.J. Murphy Copy Share Image
Fiction was a massive, massive part of my formative years, far more so than television ever was, and I always hoped that… — Steve Backshall Copy Share Image
For pity's sake, if you don't take a shine to a novel, there are loads more in the world; read something else.… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Every forest is a good library where you can find many books! Animals, trees, even rocks are the books of this mystic… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Under fun’s new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don’t want… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
If I had an author superpower, I would like to have the ability to stop time for everyone else. I feel like… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
You don't know what you need when you're a young writer. You can get small slivers of critical input, advice, comments, but… — David Means Copy Share Image
The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For...… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“I really didn't write it with any intention of being published. If I'd known that was going to happen, I would have… — Gideon Defoe Copy Share Image
When a child is learning to write, it is extremely easy for it to hold the pen wrongly, and to form its… — James Allen Copy Share Image
I never want to co-write. People never just write a quarter of a book, do they? I don't think you can get… — Sam Fender Copy Share Image
“Reading a good book is like being able to dream while you're awake. The best part is knowing you can re-enter that… — J.Z. Bingham Copy Share Image
It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn. — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted. — Hayley Atwell Copy Share Image
A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Adversity prunes the pages of growth and prosperity in the book of your life. You only have to determine how you shape… — Jeffrey G. Duarte Copy Share Image
I can only write a book like 'The Tin Drum' or 'From the Diary of a Snail' at a special period of… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“Be pragmatic, then. If you’re not happy with the way your writing has gone, you might give my method a try. If… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
To write or speak is to communicate. To communicate is to share meanings, make them ‘common’ to all participants in the discourse.… — Robin Lakoff Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think of writing as becoming this antenna that picks up the vibrations all around me in order to find out… — Gregory Allen Howard Copy Share Image
Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“(...) and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
My husband and I had the opportunity to write some stuff for other people. We both tried it. I think it lasted… — Margo Price Copy Share Image
“A life lived outside of one's giftedness is a complete and utter travesty. It deprives the world of the beauty we each… — Shirley Houston Copy Share Image
I'm a little harsh. When people say, 'I have writers block. What do you suggest?' I say, 'If you can't write, don't… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good. — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“People who live without books are just living their basic life. They need books to live their life to the fullest” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
