I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he wrote equations, or musical notation, sometimes he wrote in Latin; he refused to tell her what it was about. "Nothing,"… — Gwendolen Gross Copy Share Image
“Do not insult a writer by asking him questions related to books written by someone else. If you are not reading the… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“They are the lost books,” he turned his head, grasping his cane and raising it aloft, as if speaking more to the… — Darius Jones 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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 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
“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 think that to be a good writer, you have to put yourself on the line, you have to think deeply about… — Marilynne Robinson 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
“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
“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
“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
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
'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
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
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
“The library at Pemberley was as freely open to her as it was to Darcy, and with his tactful and loving encouragement… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
After I work with my editor to get the manuscript in good shape, I sketch and lay out a whole book loosely,… — Adam Rex Copy Share Image
John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt… — Gabourey Sidibe Copy Share Image
I don't start a novel until I have lived with the story for awhile to the point of actually writing an outline… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“ (1) the Muse visits during, not before, the act of composition, and (2) the writer takes dictation from that place in… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I had a mother who walked to the library with me, and you can't walk to a lot of libraries in San… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
