“You get no writing done at all if you sit at a table with a view. You'd spent the whole time watching… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a folk writer. There's no such thing as somebody who's never read a book before suddenly sitting… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can… — Ngaio Marsh Copy Share Image
Each book requires a different look. Sometimes I get to take a personal direction that's appropriate for the story. I try to… — Cliff Chiang Copy Share Image
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“No, I have never had a problem finding books to read. But I have had a problem finding people who understand what… — G.R. Reader Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
If you can write (and don't kid yourself that you can, if you can't) and you have ideas that are commercially viable… — Joel McIver Copy Share Image
“The use of reading, Gibbon says somewhere, is to aid us in thinking. I have always disagreed with Gibbon over that; he… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
“Our taste for books came from Antonin, an old second-hand bookseller, an anarchist, whose shop was on Cours Julien. We'd cut classes… — Jean-Claude Izzo Copy Share Image
You don't realise how much you're holding onto until you start to let go of it. I had had loads of therapy… — Damian Barr Copy Share Image
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself. Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I try to find stories that I would think that everyone would find interesting, and just a good entertaining story, and then… — Norman Jewison Copy Share Image
“The only real people are the people who never existed, and if a novelist is base enough to go to life for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, but when… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
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“What's wrong?" he asked. "What's wrong?" she repeated. "I don't know what's going on here but you need to put that book… — Alfred M. Struthers Copy Share Image
“Go ahead, throw this book away. Spit on me. Revile me. I dare you. Cast me out of your intellectual orbit. Throw… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“What happened is the least of it. It’s a novel, and once you’ve finished a novel, what happened in it is of… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“As more and more norms disappear from social praxis, literature faces ever-growing difficulties. Its predicament is beginning to resemble that of a… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
I used to think that when I finished a book, I was finished with it. But it's like a wonderful Hydra. Every… — Tony Buzan Copy Share Image
'James and the Giant Peach' magnificently starts out Dahl's career as a blithe and droll Bad Uncle corrupter and affirmer of youth.… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For a book publisher, there is hardly a more dangerous category than that of celebrity autobiography. Forget who it's by, most books… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity—civilization’s backbone—that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and… — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
“It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience...For that reason, reading a novel is potentially… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, "You may have fooled some of the people… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
My writing is different. I think it's better. I think it's deeper. But, strangely enough, it covers a lot of the old… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
“Ornate language tended to unsettle him. Passages from nineteenth-century novels might glow like hot coals or squirm like heaps of snakes. In… — Harry Dolan Copy Share Image
... one of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
So much of writing is discovery. Sometimes I feel like a rat in a maze, trying to discover the way out. My… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Ernest Hemingway has been the most important influence on me as a writer. But at a certain point as a writer, I… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
“Ah college years, those were the days. Pure freedom ... leaving home for the first time…the parties…” "What about the tutorials, the… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
I'm not the most talented writer in the world. I know that. But I also know that I'm disciplined, that I work… — David B. Coe Copy Share Image
“Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In my experience, with very few exceptions - I am, as it happens, one of the exceptions - the one thing that… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
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