Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us… — Edith Pearlman Copy Share Image
“the chaos of the world that counted people as different levels of worthy, the Library served all equally. All genders, races, levels… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
For me, every book is a journey - questioning a really difficult topic that most people don't want to talk about, much… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I write about whatever is timely - whatever is happening at the time for me - with what the expressive feeling is. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
I'm very much, like, 'We've all got to help each other.' If there's a new female writer, I'm much more likely to… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
One evening, I read David Nicholls' book 'One Day,' because our flat was a few streets down from Rankeillor Street, where the… — Lolly Adefope Copy Share Image
I prefer a great novel, but many novels come with a bunch of novel-y writerliness that feels sort of macho to me,… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“That’s why you should flip through the pages so that someday you’d be an ebook author. So doing you’d save a newer… — S. A. David Copy Share Image
Teachers and librarians are some of my favorite people, especially since I was a teacher myself. I love talking to them because… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Writing helps me to create order out of chaos and make sense of things. It helps me to understand what I've experienced,… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
Woodworking requires a completely different kind of thinking and problem-solving ability than writing. With writing, you take a set of facts and… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Two years passed, and I had no second book to follow 'Roots.' Four years passed, six years. When a decade had passed… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate… — Jan Clausen Copy Share Image
In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write,… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is… — Ernesto Sabato Copy Share Image
“Publishing a book does not make you an authority or an expert. Authorship doesn’t not equal authority.” — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“The one thing Leonard won't tolerate is fancy prose. As he states in his 10 Rules of Writing: "If it sounds like… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“A serious bibliophile never lends his books. In fact he does not even read his books, for fear of wearing them out.” — Gérard de Nerval Copy Share Image
“Yes, it’s true that you can’t learn everything from books. But you do learn something about everything.” — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
It's difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story - a novel is a large story. I'm used… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate. — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer? — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Snooki is a bestselling author? Huh? What? I don't know if I should dumb down my book, shoot myself or find a… — Geoffrey Hill Copy Share Image
I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't… — J. Milton Hayes Copy Share Image
Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“But in those whom no necessity forces to turn Author, who merely write for fame, and have full leisure to polish their… — Matthew Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm totally obsessed with Dickens, and 'Great Expectations' was one of the first book's I read when I was still in school… — Paul Rhys Copy Share Image
“It is a delicious thing to write, whether well or badly - to be no longer yourself but to move in an… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“I am in Waterstones looking at all the chick lit rubbish on the shelves. In a fit of pique, I turn them… — Maddie Grigg Copy Share Image
He said you should write about 75 lines every day. You know, Pound was a great one for laying down the law… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
