“The sure mark of an unliterary man is that he considers "I've read it already" to be a conclusive argument against reading… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“He saw a square room furnished as a library. The entire section of the walls which he could spy was covered from… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
All writers are crazy. So never mind what the editors and your family and your critique group tells you. Submit your manuscripts… — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
“A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Write every day; never give up; it's supposed to be difficult; try to find some pleasure and reward in the act of… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you're failing as a… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night. They… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
“That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it)… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I really need to know where I'm going with fiction to write it in a way that at least I'm happy with.… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I do think, where would kids be if it weren't for you and for the good pediatricians, and for the good parents?… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of reading, reading which is contemplation - even a kind of vision & reading for information. For the… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
As a literature student, I put pen to paper in times of devastating tragedy, I just try to make sense of it.… — Samuel Kermis Copy Share Image
“I really think this kind of consensual cannibalism is such a perfect analogue for the reciprocal relationship between writer and reader, and… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarate, and the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“In the ideal public library, we are all readers of the “middling sort.” Reading whatever we will, we fulfill a public function,… — Matthew Battles Copy Share Image
“Children's literature is considerably more functional than a good portion of adult literature. If I were cynical, I might say: Children's books… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
“Whatever truth you have chosen, read only a small portion of it, endeavouring to taste and digest it, to extract the essence… — Madame Guyon Copy Share Image
Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
That you write a phrase or you think of something and it seems to have a deeper charge because the title has… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
“I left my novels for better times, when I could dedicate the energy and enjoy the inspiration I feel while planning them;… — Sahara Sanders Copy Share Image
When I was writing the first few books, what I would do is write a bunch of sentences and then go back… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“"Since I could only take six books per visit from the library, I had to time it right, or I'd be stuck… — Randy Susan Meyers Copy Share Image
“When you write a story, don't just write it - live it; When putting words into the mouth of a protagonist (or… — Arti Honrao Copy Share Image
With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls… Most of us assume there is something goodin every… — Katharine Sergeant Angell White Copy Share Image
“I sat at the bottom of the garden, and I wrote the last page of my book, and I knew that I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I've seen people around me write books, and somehow they're always in the center of everything that happened; they were the one… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
“She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in… — John Green Copy Share Image
Writing books and being paid for it - it's not like winning the Lottery. You can't suddenly go, 'Yippee!' and start throwing… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“A novel is something that stands at the end of a lengthy process called writing. It is not a preexisting Platonic form… — Victoria Nelson Copy Share Image
Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different way. But… — Jeffrey Skoll Copy Share Image
A Crime So Monstrous is a remarkably brave and unflinching piece of reportage and storytelling. Ben Skinner bears witness, sharing stories so… — Alex Kotlowitz Copy Share Image
