Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It's always a challenge to discover the most effective first sentence, and the most effective final sentence, in a chapter for instance,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Brita said, 'I read at home, I read in hotels, I take a book with me on a twenty-minute trip to the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“His routine was fixed. A morning spent reading books, then a sandwich in front of the local lunchtime news and an afternoon… — Sarah Stovell Copy Share Image
For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can think of so many ways of expressing myself that I feel I'm an old typewriter, and too many keys… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
After writing anything, there's always that postpartum feeling of, "What do I do now?" - I think particularly for nonfiction writers. I… — Lucas Mann Copy Share Image
“I turn sentences around. That’s my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“I fear the day when the technos decide that paper books are obsolete and we are reading from PC screens and iPods… — Suzanne Somers Copy Share Image
Graham Wallas has reminded us that writing as compared with speaking involves an impression at the second remove and reading an impression… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
I have always written - since I was a kid. I might say that I am essentially a writer who is bored… — Jasmila Zbanic Copy Share Image
I'm superstitious about the paper that I use, for example. I've written all my novels on a paper of a particular size… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
When the writing is going really well, whole days and weeks go by, and I suddenly realise I have all these unpaid… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Hasn't everyone written a leave letter while at school? Or sent a text message? There is a writer in all of us. — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Reading is primarily a symptom. Of a healthy imagination, of our interest in this and other worlds, of our ability to be… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“But Moby-Dick is the explanation of America. It’s not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is the book.… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
There comes a moment which you must decide whether to skip the page or close the book, it's your decision. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If you can believe it, I wrote all of 'Awakened' around one chapter. That was the idea for the whole thing, so… — James Murray Copy Share Image
I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“It may sound dorky, but I love books- the feel of the paper, the old musty smell, & especially the way the… — Cheryl Renee Herbsman Copy Share Image
Luckily for you, you can close the book The Postman Always Rings Twice and break out of it, and James M. Cain… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I don't think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“Reading is nothing less than divinity. An experience that is both visceral and ethereal. An open book in your hand, a mind… — J.G. Starbuck Copy Share Image
Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask. — Michael Weston Copy Share Image
“Writers are like supreme beings. We can create worlds in a matter of days and we can destroy them just as fast.” — Linda Nelson Copy Share Image
My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We just try to write about things that are close to our hearts. We don't sit around trying to write another 'Free… — Rickey Medlocke Copy Share Image
A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work. — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
