There are so many different things out there trying to hook our attention, we writers have to be very selective and make… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Professionally, my first book came out at the age of 29, where I wrote about my experiences of backpacking in U.S. on… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“I attempted in vain to calculate the size of the holdings on the shelves, floor on floor, only to boggle hopelessly, baffled… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation. — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“We can trace the communitarian fantasy that lies at the root of all humanism back to the model of a literary society,… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on… — S. Ansky Copy Share Image
Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Dedication. DEDICATION. That is the only way to become a writer. Write every day. Write until your fingers bleed, your eyes bleed,… — Belle DiMonté Copy Share Image
I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“Writing is an adventure. There is no way to know where it will take you, and what you will find. You could… — M. Kirin Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer. — John Amos Copy Share Image
“One of these days, Strickland is going to write a little book on his experiences. That book will be worth buying; and… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I am always reading, always, and tons of things at once. I wouldn't say I'm a voracious reader, though. I never finish… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“There's more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you'll see that beauty is a… — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
I think if I had done anything else I would like to have been a doctor. This is the sort of polar… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
As a writer, I don't have a sense of my own position. I try to disappear and not to think of myself… — David Milch Copy Share Image
So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A novel should tell a story, be a pleasure to read, and at the same time it should be thought-provoking, even a… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Since I became a knitting humor writer, I seem to be understood a little better - at least for the purposes of… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
“In the presence of a reader of Teilhard De Chardin I feel disarmed, nonplussed, ready to break down in tears.” — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project.… — J. C. Chandor Copy Share Image
