As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We're only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be… — J.A. Konrath Copy Share Image
“I smile as I walk toward her and nearly trip on a stack of haphazardly organized books. Why don't I eve put… — Defiance by C.J. Redwine Logan Copy Share Image
One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Books and knowledge don’t make for a safe world. Just the opposite. Books and knowledge are facets of the truth and the… — Malorie Blackman Copy Share Image
“Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think,… — David Bowker Copy Share Image
If there is any other way.To break the cycle and change that part.Reverse the pages, chapter and stories. Ill let you barrow… — Louaiq8 Copy Share Image
For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“Because a writer can't influence people, in the sense of making them think and feel and act as he does. He can… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Books, books, books in all their aspects, in form and spirit, their physical selves and what reading releases from their hieroglyphic pages,… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
There's a difference between talent and skill. You might have writing talent, but skill is learned. You have to practice. I remain… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
The first pages of any book I remember reading, in Pinner Wood primary school, were from The Beacon Readers: stories of Farmer… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Writing, directing - it's just torture every time and it doesn't seem to get any easier. And yet I love them and… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
“To read books seriously is to be staggered by the knowledge of how many more books will remain beyond your ken. It’s… — James Falllows Copy Share Image
I see so many talented writers who have difficulties with that. And if you don't believe it's important, you won't put in… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
You open doors when you open books... doors that swing wide to unlimited horizons of knowledge, wisdom, and inspiration that will enlarge… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not… — Alfred Bertram Guthrie Copy Share Image
She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust,… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
“... except when I get down and write...then I let my imagination go to places I never knew existed and my characters… — Mark Alders Copy Share Image
I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“Writing, in its noblest function, is the attempt to unerase, to unearth, to find the primitive picture again, ours, the one that… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books. They impress us with the conviction, that one… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else. — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all… — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
