“Whose book is it anyway? The hardest thing a writer has to learn is that once you publish a book, it's no… — Julie Bertagna Copy Share Image
Kerry Cohen's powerful, transfixing story will be familiar to many women, most of whom won't want to admit it. In this heartfelt… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
“Who's Mrs. Gummidge?' 'If you're a good girl and get well soon I'll lend you the book.' 'Oh, somebody in a book!… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“say, “Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Steven Pinker says, the invention of printing and the widespread appearance of fiction - this taught empathy. If you read a novel,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You're reading as someone who wants… — Homer Hickam Copy Share Image
“Dear Reader, This book you hold is a treasure, of sorts, as is every book I have ever known. I have made… — Kelly Gardiner Copy Share Image
There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“It is, incidentally, a favour that e-books have done for the Good Bookshop: they have made books beautiful again. A few years… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at… — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they're private jokes that are… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“The bookstore itself was cozy but not crowded, with posters of classic novels framed and hung on the walls. And it was… — Shaun David Hutchinson Copy Share Image
The chief reason I shove the reader inside the body - or more specifically, the chief reason I try to get the… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I'm doing the best I can with the ravages of time on my body and I'm a work in progress. I can't… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
“People are often dismissive of librarians and libraries…But isn't that where the best stories are kept? Hidden away on the library bookshelves,… — Justine Picardie Copy Share Image
I'm entranced by Amanda Lovelace's work. She wrote two wonderful books, 'The Princess Saves Herself in This One' and 'The Witch Doesn't… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
I’ve always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%.… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Naturally, you don't sit down in "white hot inspiration" and write with a burning flame in front of you. But since I… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
“better? But what would become of me if I didn’t write what I can, however inferior it may be to what I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“[…]when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
There are loads of novels that I really love, like Haruki Murakami's books, and when I read them, I do think about… — Makoto Shinkai Copy Share Image
I won't usually just sit down to write. I'd have done it in my head already. I visualise a story just like… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you.… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper,… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small town with a very small library. But the books in the library opened a large place… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
Eve Byron has a permanent place on my must-buy list. Her characters are three-dimensional men and women who live on in readers'… — Barbara Bretton Copy Share Image
When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Like the moon, the novel is a symbol and a necessary reality. Ideally it serves neither gods nor masters. Philosopher’s stone, it… — Rikki Ducornet Copy Share Image
“He looked at a picture on the wall and saw everything that existed outside the room he was sitting in and the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Literature takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
I eat broccoli. I think about the plot. I pace in circles for hours, counter-clockwise, listening to music. I try to think… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
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