Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later,… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“Erich Fromm in his 1941 book "Escape from Freedom", about the nature of one of our culture’s most cherished values. Fromm argues… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
“I will quote one sentence from this text, namely, the one with which it ended. It was also the sentence which finally… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
There is a lot of learned material written about nationalism - scholarly books and papers, histories of it, theories of it -… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and irritatingly as you can. And the good things will… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But the essence of a place, the part of it that picks you up and puts you down somewhere else, cannot be… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair. — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“If you would write a book about that and give the answer to that question, that 'why?' - you would have a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You are one of us, one of those who knows without knowing, and one who will live and die in dreams that… — Mary-Jean Harris Copy Share Image
“The principal aim underlying this work is to render homage where homage is due, a task which I know beforehand is impossible… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“My mouth was dry as cotton and my head hurt like hell. I tried to lift it, and the effort left me… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Books like Munro's are so deeply personal and idiosyncratic that it feels like a violation to subject them to the crude business… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
My two goals are to read everything Edith Wharton has ever written and to have an art collection. — Kellie Martin Copy Share Image
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way around. — John K Van De Kamp Copy Share Image
I'm a total nerd. I love comic books and video games and most of all zombies! — Katie Leclerc Copy Share Image
Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Making your bed could be a piece of art, and writing a book could be a piece of art. You could also… — Matthew Brannon Copy Share Image
I used to read a lot of Isaac Asimov and Philip Dick and 'Inland Empire's' one of the earlier books I read! — Eoin Macken Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of actors who are excellent at cold reads, and they go to an audition, and they… — Jeff Baena Copy Share Image
Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would… — Edward Abbey 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
“Facing the sagging middle when writing a novel, while inevitable, may be overcome by pre-planning. I divide my collection of proposed scenes… — Patricia Hickman Copy Share Image
Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“L. 547. The terms made use of in this line, and in 481, may appear somewhat coarse, as addressed by one Goddess… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, Erica's talent was acting, his writing, and gauging by her superior smirk, she was a reader, too, and he an open… — Eden Winters Copy Share Image
If the reader cares, I dont think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero. — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Always tell us where we are. And don't just tell us where something is, make it pay off. Use description of landscape… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Thought I will never see you again, Ive been to the North, West, East, South, looking for you, call your phone, and… — Ogunyombo Oluwseun David Copy Share Image
“The book was called Man’s Search for Meaning by the Jewish author Viktor Frankl. The book had been a real-life story about… — Erik Hamre Copy Share Image
The market literature, which was particularly strong in Igboland, in Onitsha, today it is no longer strong. It is one of the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
