I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but ‘[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
After years of working on books, I eventually took a more business-oriented job, for the same sorts of reasons that most people… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“September 1973, that's where this novel begins. That's the entrance. We'll just hope there's an exit. If there isn't one, there wouldn't… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Do you have any old copies of Dickens? Bookseller: We've got a copy of David Copperfield from 1850 for $150. Customer: Why… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
“Nor is it again that the novel has killed the play, as some critics would persuade us - the romantic movement of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“When I Read the Book" When I read the book, the biography famous, And is this then (said I) what the author… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I think that sense of wonderment, where you walk out expecting the ordinary and are confronted by the extraordinary, is something that… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“The novel remains for me one of the few forms...where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute, our not altogether… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“the whole point of literature, I think, is that it’s the best technology we have for communicating what another person’s life feels… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
“No matter how many books I write, I will eventually get to fiction. That is where I'm going.” — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Never Mind Nirvana is the first novel I’ve read that makes music as important as food, clothing romance — a fresh twist… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end… — Sara Nelson Copy Share Image
Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
What art and books do at their best is investigate why we are the way we are. — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Make your novel readable. Make it easy to read, pleasant to read. This doesn't mean flowery passages, ambitious flights of pyrotechnic verbiage;… — Laurence D'Orsay Copy Share Image
There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I seem to have three categories of readers. The first is nonbelievers who are glad that I am reading the Bible so… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
“What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons; we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless 'Why?'… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
