I always carry a book with me to read on the bus, and I tend to arrive everywhere early. — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
“Until you begin to write, then you shall know the wonders of the written word.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better. — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
It's much harder to act poorly written material. It's much harder to memorize poorly written material. — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
I didn't want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad. — David Liss Copy Share Image
I've always been prepared to write about the hard things. Only for healing, teaching, and enlightening purposes not to hurt or disparage… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“When I meet someone who says they're not "much for books," I can guarantee that they haven't met the right book yet.” — Kersten Hamilton Copy Share Image
I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
UNMARKED is both gorgeous and hideous. A frightening and disturbing tale spun with great beauty. Absolutely riveting. — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present. — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
“You know that part of your writing that you question, —that's weird and doesn't fit neatly into a genre or mold?Write more… — Richard Thomas Copy Share Image
“I like writing that is restrained and invisible. I don't mean that I like things to be simple and easy to decode,… — S.U. Pacat Copy Share Image
Cinematic and symphonic: this is a compelling story revealed in a sequence of voices that are as pitch-perfect as they are irresistible.… — Rikki Ducornet Copy Share Image
Due to the sweeping time frame and the voices moving back and forth, the outline for 'The Invention of Wings' was the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
A writer/director is a tough thing to gauge when someone hasn't directed a movie before. You just don't know. Sometimes it will… — Richard Ayoade Copy Share Image
I still have a fondness for books. Many a time I will be antiquing, and I'll say, 'What's that old-timey curio over… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You know that something is really well written when you have to think so little about the words that are coming out… — Tom Weston-Jones Copy Share Image
From time to time, as if heaven-sent to annoy, someone will ask me if I'm self-disciplined when it comes to my work.… — Will Self Copy Share Image
