I think shorter books are going to become more and more of the trend. So I don't think you have to write… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
I think every time I can find a story that touches that human nerve, and even sometimes makes you cry, I think… — Frank Deford Copy Share Image
I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive… — Sophie Thompson Copy Share Image
“She slowly rolled the book over in her hands, memorizing the cover as she said goodbye. She flipped through the pages, feeling… — Sage Steadman Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a mystery or thriller writer, honestly. I am in awe of mystery writers and don't think… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create,… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
If the item of stolen property had been anything other than a book, it would have been confiscated. But a book is… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
We've always read to the kids, every night both kids get books. That's really important, and they love books. Our daughter is… — Jeremiah Brent Copy Share Image
I always hope that readers, of my books, will take away whatever is most meaningful to them wherever they are at right… — Tosca Lee Copy Share Image
...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I'm not saying I have to write a book that's ten times better than my counterparts, but I do think that I… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“The page-a-day folks had done well and generally gotten tenure. The so-called “binge writers” fared far less well, and many had had… — Roy F. Baumeister Copy Share Image
I never knew what to do with a paper except to put it in a side pocket or pass it to a… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“The book felt wonderful in my hands. I held it up to my nose and drank in its aroma. I think I'm… — Syrie James Copy Share Image
...That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image
“Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his… — David Scheier Copy Share Image
There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Well, whatever you and Nancy decide to be when you grow up, I know that you'll be happy because you have discovered… — Betty MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Libri quosdam ad scientiam, quosdam ad insaniam deduxere. (Books have led some to knowledge and some to madness.)” — Francesco Petrarca Copy Share Image
I just want to tell good stories in ways that will shine light on lives rarely seen on screen, because stories can… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my… — Julie Bowen Copy Share Image
Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“A person who wrote badly did better than a person who does not write at all. A bad writing can be corrected.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“In my opinion the best writer of historical novels. He makes you feel, smell, see every thing he describes in all his… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
“No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“One sheds one’s sicknesses in books — repeats and presents again one’s emotions, to be master of them.’ DH Lawrence (The Letters… — Ella Berthoud Copy Share Image
I look at books as being a form of activism. Sometimes they'll show us a side of the world that we might… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
“There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and… — Morley Callaghan Copy Share Image
Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you know anything about writing biographies, or what is regarded as a good biography, you have minimum input from the person… — Lady Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
