“I read daily, not so much for the benefit of my writing, but because I am addicted to it. There is nothing… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves,… — Craig Lancaster Copy Share Image
Fiction always reveals a lot about the person who is writing it. That's the scary thing. Not in a straightforward autobiographical sense.… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
She either confused me with a much older child or else she glimpsed deep inside my soul and perceived a hole that… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“It took me a long time to realise that there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Who am I? I'm the one you love to love and love to hate. I make you laugh, cry & cringe. You'll… — Eveli Acosta Copy Share Image
“And, hey. You. Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing.… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
“When I had no books and had to learn everything I needed off by heart, and when I had to hide what… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“When I picked up a book that I had read many times before, the words opened themselves up again. What I was… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“"I always read everything when I was a kid-and I do mean everything, from Nancy Drew to Dickens to my dad's John… — Barbara O'Neal Copy Share Image
Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself:… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Solitary people, these book lovers. I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I write down an 'L' or a 'W,' whether or not the day was a 'Loss'… — Jinder Mahal Copy Share Image
Jon Land writes great fiction, and Betrayal reads like the best of it. The fact that it's true makes the story all… — Robert Leuci Copy Share Image
Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“I think reading a good book makes one modest. When you see the marvelous insight into human nature which a truly great… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more nerve-racking than waiting as someone reads your writing. The reader becomes the videographer, zooming far, far into your… — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image
A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“The highest form of morality is not to feel at home in ones own home." Most great works of the imagination were… — azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I never think about anything in my brain. I think in very small repetitive circles inside my own brain. That's why I'm… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
Sight by Jessie Greengrass was put up on Instagram by an acquaintance, so no one actually recommended it to me personally and… — Phoebe Fox Copy Share Image
The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is fantastic. It's volcanic and sexy and utterly unlike anything I've read before. It feels like the future… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“The mortality rate of literary friendships is high. Writers tend to be bad risks as friends ~ probably for much the same… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Black-Liberians has subjected and mistreated each other before some of the Foreigners ever got hold. The problems that exist are not with… — Henry Johnson Jr Copy Share Image
If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule to never touch a book by any… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
My books are based on the "what if" principle. "What if you became invisible?" or "What if you did change into your… — Mary Rodgers Copy Share Image
“In the middle section of the book Mirabelle breaks into not one, but two houses near Belgravia Books. I had fun scoping… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“I work as much as fifty to sixty hours at a stretch," Kusama wrote in a 1961 article of her entrancing, utterly… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
“This is our goal as writers, I think: to help others have this sense of wonder, of seeing things anew, things that… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The average person might articulate them differently, but we all think about interpersonal relationships in one way or another. Writers just express… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must… — John Green Copy Share Image
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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